Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases (Hardcover)

~ (Author), Rachel Glennerster (Author) "After graduating from college, I spent a year teaching high school in a rural area of western Kenya..." (more)
Key Phrases: pull programs, vaccine developers, person immunized, World Bank, United States, Orphan Drug Act (more...)

Editorial Reviews

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"After reading it, the only question the reader is left with is why somebody, somewhere hasn't taken up this challenge". -- Washington Post

"But the cumulative effect at the end is to leave the reader asking: "Why don't we get on with it?" -- David Healy, The Times Higher Education Supplement

"It is a valuable effort to find a practical solution to a major problem". -- Pierre Chirac, Nature

"Strong Medicine should be read widely, as it presents a creative financing model for R&D that could be extremely important". -- Warren A. Kaplan, EMBO Reports

"This short book poses a problem and suggests a practical solution." -- Richard N. Cooper, Foreign Affairs

It is a valuable effort to find a practical solution to a major problem. -- Pierre Chirac , Nature

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This book should interest anyone involved in international public health, politics and economics. It is a valuable effort to find a practical solution to a major problem.
(Pierre Chirac Nature )

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 152 pages
• Publisher: Princeton University Press (September 7, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0691121133
• ISBN-13: 978-0691121130
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,055,135 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)