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Particularly recommended items are flagged with a red Connexions logo:

  1. Big Pharma Making a killing
    New Internationalist November 2003
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2003
    A look at big pharmaceutical companies and issues surrounding their pursuit for profit at the expense of peoples' health.
  2. A Brief History of the Medical Reform Group
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1995
    Covers the year 1979 - 1994.
  3. For Health or Profit? The Pharmaceutical Industry in the Third World and Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  4. New Internationalist Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from the New Internationalist, chat forum, ethical shopping, more.
  5. The No-Nonsense Guide to HIV/AIDS
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    This book gives an overview of the origins of HIV, the ways in which it spreads, the profits made by drug companies, women's special vulnerability and the positive action being taken by people and communities to fight back.
  6. The Political Economy of Health
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979   Published: 1889
  7. The Real Pushers
    A Critical Analysis of the Canadian Drug Industry
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  8. Safety Last
    The Failure of the Consumer Health Protection System in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Regush investigates how new medical devices and drugs are tested. He argues that the health protection bureaucracy is doing shoddy work, caving in to pressure from pharmaceutical corporations instead of acting to safeguard the health of Canadians.
  9. The Truth About the Drug Companies
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    The combined profits for the ten drug companies in the Fortune 500 ($35.9 billion) were more than the profits for all the other 490 businesses put together ($33.7 billion) [in 2002]. Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs. Now primarily a marketing machine to sell drugs of dubious benefit, this industry uses its wealth and power to co-opt every institution that might stand in its way.

Experts on Pharmaceuticals Industry in the Sources Directory

  1. Consumer Health Products Canada
  2. Patented Medicine Prices Review Board


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