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The Big Fix: How the pharmaceutical industry rips off American consumers by Katharine Greider, PublicAffairs, $14, ISBN 1586481851

Measuring the Gains from Medical Research: An economic approach edited by Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel, University of Chicago Press, $27.50, ISBN 0226551784

What Price Better Health? Hazards of the research imperative by Daniel Callahan, University of California Press, $29.95, ISBN 0520227719 Reviewed by Charles Medawar

YEARS ago – I believe when pleading for a monumental loan – President Emilio Medici summed up the state of his nation: “Brazil is doing well, but the people are not.” The same dilemma…

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