For Export Only: Pharmaceuticals

Profits versus public health
Written, directed and produced by Robert Richter

Documents U.S. and western European medicines marketed in developing nations with minimal, misleading or non-existent information about contra-indications, side effects or warnings.

The products are banned or restricted in their countries of origin because they cause blindness, liver disorders, central nervous system diseases, sterility and death in humans, and are carcinogenic or teratogenic in laboratory animals.

"Of value and interest. It will present another face of the pharmaceutical industry, contrasting greatly with the one ordinarily presented to students and practitioners of medicine and pharmacy in the U.S."
—Journal of Pharmacy Teaching

Specific products and manufacturers are named as the documentary clearly depicts their use and abuse on five continents. Included are exclusive interviews with industry leaders, pharmacists, physicians, patients, government officials and leaders of consumer groups.

57 minutes

Study Areas: business and society, business ethics, contemporary moral problems, consumer issues, developing world studies, environmental sociology, international business/trade/marketing, political sociology, public health, sociobiology, Third World studies, legal and ethical health care, biological and medical ethics, pharmacological nursing, broadcast journalism

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For Export Only: Pharmaceuticals

Documents U.S. and western European medicines marketed in developing nations with minimal, misleading or non-existent information about contra-indications, side effects or warnings.