Regulating Medicines in Europe: Competition, Expertise and Public Health
ISBN: 9781315008899
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Social Sciences; Sociology & Social Policy; Medical Sociology;

This Book explains and investigates how medicines are controlled in Europe, especially the EU. Based on penetrating documentary and interview research with the pharmaceutical industry, regulators and consumer organisations,it provides the first major critical examination of the new Europeanised systems of medicine regulation. The authors argue that the drive to produce and approve more drugs more quickly for a single European market dominates other considerations, such as improvements in democratic accountability, the independence of regulators and scientific expertise from commercial interests, and drug safety testing and surveillance.

John Abraham is Professor of Sociology and Co-director of the Centre for Research in Health and Medicine, University of Sussex.,Dr Graham Lewis is a writer and consultant on European and international medicines regulation, and former Research Fellow in Science Policy, University of Reading.

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