Alan Cassels

health policy researcher, University of Victoria

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Health policy researcher at the University of Victoria; author of The ABC's of Disease-mongering: An Epidemic in 26 Letters and co-author of Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients

 

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