Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Alan Cassels to speak at the U

Thursday, Feb. 16 2006
12:15 PM to 01:15 PM

Student Committee on Bioethics Lecture Series

Disease Mongering 101: The Marketer's Guide to Selling Sickness
Alan Cassels

Moos Health Sciences Tower - 2-650
University of Minnesota

Alan Cassels is a drug policy researcher in Victoria, BC, Canada. He led a team of researchers which produced Canada’s first evaluation of the quality of media reporting of prescription drugs. He recently co-authored the book Selling Sickness: How The World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients (Nation Books, 2005).

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