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1. Controlling Pharmaceutical Risks

   Science, Cancer, and the Geneticization of Drug Testing

   By John Abraham, Rachel Ballinger

   Series: Genetics and Society

   Controlling Pharmaceutical Risks is a case study of changes in drug testing since the late 1990s, specifically geneticization of carcinogenic risk assessment and regulation of pharmaceuticals. Radically new ways of determining whether medical drugs might cause cancer have been established...

   To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
2. The Self and Social Relationships

   Edited by Joanne V. Wood, Abraham Tesser, John G. Holmes

   Although the two major research areas of the "Self" and "Social Relationships" have flourished, they have done so largely independently of each other. More and more research, however, has indicated that relationships shape the nature of the self and identity, and that self-views influence...

   Published August 21st 2007 by Psychology Press
3. Regulating Medicines in Europe

   Competition, Expertise and Public Health

   By John Abraham, Graham Lewis

   This Book explains and investigates how medicines are controlled in Europe, especially the EU. Based on penetrating documentary and interview research with the pharmaceutical industry, regulators and consumer organisations,it provides the first major critical examination of the new Europeanised...

   Published September 27th 2000 by Routledge
4. The Therapeutic Nightmare

   The battle over the world's most controversial sleeping pill

   By John Abraham, Julie Sheppard

   How do drugs get to the market? What controls are there and what procedures for monitoring their effects? And how adequate are the regulators in protecting public health when new drugs have serious side effects? The Therapeutic Nightmare tells the story of the sleeping pill Halcion - a story which...

   Published September 30th 1999 by Routledge
5. Science, Politics And The Pharmaceutical Industry

   Controversy And Bias In Drug Regulation

   By Abraham, John, John Abraham University of Reading.

   Drug disasters from Thalidomide to Opren, and other less dramatic cases of drug injury, raise questions about whether the testing and control of medicines provides satisfactory protection for the public. In this revealing study, John Abrahan develops a theoretically challenging realist approach, in...

   Published June 28th 1995 by Routledge
6. Divide And School

   Gender And Class Dynamics In Comprehensive Education

   By John Abraham Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Reading. IYR 1995

   Published March 29th 1995 by Routledge