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Publication type: Edited Book

Rochon Ford A, Saibil D The Push to Prescribe: Women & Canadian Drug Policy Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press Inc. 2009 Sep
http://www.merxmotion.com/motion.asp?siteid=100366&lgid=1&menuid=5376&prodid=121201&cat=9869


Abstract:

Description

In recent years, heated debate has surrounded the pharmaceutical industry and how it has gained unprecedented control over the evaluation, regulation, and promotion of its own products. As a result, drugs are produced, regulated, marketed, and used in ways that infiltrate many aspects of everyday life. The nature and extent of this infiltration, and how this has special meaning for women, are at the core of The Push to Prescribe.

This is an essential resource for a variety of courses in Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacology, Public Policy, Public Health, Health Policy, Women’s Studies, Women’s Health, as well as many Social Science courses in areas like Sociology and Political Science. It will also be of interest to a general audience, health professional organizations, government health associations, and consumer and women’s groups.

Editors

Anne Rochon Ford is the Coordinator of Women and Health Protection, a national working group mandated to provide research-based policy advice on the safety of prescription medication. Over the last decade, WHP has commissioned research on a range of topics within the field of women and pharmaceuticals, resulting in the body of work represented in this book.

Diane Saibil is a freelance writer and editor.

Table of Contents

Foreword, Nancy Olivieri
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction, The Steering Committee of Women and Health Protection

Part I: The Push to Prescribe: Who Defines What Drugs We Need and How Do They Do It?
Chapter 2: “Ask Your Doctor”: Women and Direct-to-Consumer Advertising, Barbara Mintzes
Chapter 3: Preventing Disease: Are Pills the Answer? Sharon Batt and Abby Lippman
Chapter 4: Who Pays the Piper? Industry Funding of Patients’ Groups, Sharon Batt

Part II: The Canadian Drug Regulatory Process
Chapter 5: Trials on Trial: Women and the Testing of Drugs, Abby Lippman
Chapter 6: Lifting the Curtain on the Drug-Approval Process, Ann Silversides
Chapter 7: Reporting Adverse Drug Reactions: What Happens in the Real World? Colleen Fuller
Chapter 8: Questioning Modernization: Legislative Change at Health Canada, Anne Rochon Ford
Chapter 9: Full Circle: Drugs, the Environment, and Our Health, Sharon Batt
Chapter 10: Finding the Way Forward, The Steering Committee of Women and Health Protection

Further Reading
Related Websites
References
Copyright Acknowledgement
Index

Features – presents an approach that combines compelling evidence with social, political, and gender-based analyses

- discusses the complexity surrounding women and pharmaceuticals and uses the best evidence to argue for changes that better reflect women’s needs in public health policy and that ensure those who are best suited to make these determinations are included in policy-making

 

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Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909