Healthy Skepticism Library item: 3096

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Publication type: Journal Article

Drugs and the Third World
Lancet 1982; 2:1351

Abstract:

The response from the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry to a book critical of marketing practices in the Third World was to term it a disappointing book that repeated anecdotal evidence that ignored the massive contributions the pharmaceutical industry had made in saving lives.

Keywords:
*news story/United Kingdom/developing countries/ABPI/Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry/reaction to critics/PROMOTION AND HEALTH NEEDS: PROMOTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES/PROMOTION DISGUISED: DISINFORMATION AND HARASSMENT