Managing Medicines

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Open University Press
01 May 1997

Central government policies; Pharmaceutical industries; Health systems & services

* What are the principal features of the system responsible for the production, regulation, distribution and funding of therapeutic drugs?
* What are the major problem areas and issues of policy concern that have arisen in the pharmaceutical sector and how have the participants - particularly the State - responded to such controversies?

Medicines, and the policy issues they raise, are the subject of this book. Therapeutic drugs are widely used - some on a routine basis, others in a highly selective and specialized fashion.

Although we take the availability of such potent agents for granted, there stands behind them a complex and sophisticated system of scientific innovation, industrial production, State audit, and professional distribution.

Major issues of price, innovation, safety, professional practice and consumer autonomy arise.

Pharmaceuticals account for about ten per cent of health care costs, they are produced by a flagship

industrial sector, they are jealously guarded by key professional groups, they raise formidable questions of quality and safety, and they are watched over by a vigilant and vociferous consumer movement.

Managing Medicines seeks to disentangle these issues and come up with concrete suggestions as to how we might move forward in an area of public policy that is hotly disputed.

It will be of interest to health professionals and policy makers as well as students of public health, nursing studies, social policy and social work.

By: DAVIS
Imprint: Open University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 136mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 280g
ISBN: 9780335192922
ISBN 10: 0335192920
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 01 May 1997
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print

Series editor's introduction Introduction Therapeutic drugs the social and policy context The rules of the game Medicines and culture The health care system and the practice of medicine Drugs and money Science, consumers and the law Future directions Glossary References Index.

Peter Davis is Senior Lecturer in Medical Sociology in the Department of Community Health at the Auckland Medical School, New Zealand. His areas of special research interest are health services and health policy. He has published widely on social inequality, dentistry, primary care, and pharmaceuticals policy.

Reviews for Managing Medicines

"...thorough...detailed...interesting." - Health Service Journal "This book will provide students of medical sociology, health policy and health services management with a rangeof information which is not often available in core texts but which is important for understanding the workings of contemporary health caredelivery." - Sociology of Health & Illness "The author has written a book which is very readable, well written, clearly organized, comprehensive, balanced in its treatment of industrial and governmental perspectives, and stuffed with interesting titbits about the pharmaceutical industry garnered from around the industrialized world." - International Journal for Quality in Health Care