Everyone expects something from the drug industry. Physicians and patients, investors, regulators and administrators all have an active interest. Everyone wants to know what makes drugs 'work' medically and economically. Why are drugs so expensive? Is it the drug companies or investors who demand high profits? What governs the pharmacoeconomics? Why are so few diseases treatable?
This book opens the windows and doors of the industry telling the story of drug development by using real stories from inside the process.
* Co-written by Graham Lees and Tamas Bartfai who has been involved in the development of drugs taken by more that 20 million people every day
* Opens the windows and doors of the most regulated industry in the world, the pharmaceutical industry
* Tells the story of drug development by using real examples based on current research and events
* Provides an objective, lucid account of the successes and failures, shortcomings and constraints of the pharmaceutical and biotech industries
* Gives insights into the development of new drugs to combat multiple conditions including cancer and pain
* Balanced, unbiased account of how better to translate basic science into drug discovery

SONJA GR EY, a narcotics detective, and her nemesis, Max Trent, are handpicked to go undercover to capture a thug-Johnny Stone, aka Rock-who's dealing drugs at Sonja's church. Their operation is unwittingly aided by the interference of Sonja's eccentric aunties.

Max is in love with Sonja, but she's kept him at a distance by staying entrenched behind a wall of antagonism. For Max, this assignment has two objectives: get their villain and capture Sonja's heart.

The drug dealer, Rock, is a product of choices made by others when he was a child. He's emotionally damaged and holds a deep-rooted anger at God. He lives a dark, violent life. Could prison be his path to freedom?

Will Sonja break free of the shackles of her past and embrace Max's love, or will they be destroyed by danger?

This book is an original volume of essays that sheds new and critical light on current and emerging filmmaking trends and practices in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. A timely and important contribution to existing scholarship in the field.

Taking as its point of departure the three recurrent themes of nostalgia, memory and local histories, this book is an attempt to map out a new poetics -- the post-nostalgic imagination -- in Hong Kong cinema in the first decade of Chinese rule.

Justice-a word of great simplicity and almost frightening scope. When we were invited to edit a volume on justice in law, we joked about the small topic we had been assigned. Often humor masks fear, and this was certainly one of those times. Throughout the project, we found daunting the task of covering even a fraction of the topics that usually fall under the umbrella of justice research in law. Ultimately, the organization of the book emerged from the writing of it. Our introductory chapter provides a road map to how the topics weave together, but as is so often the case it was written last, not ?rst. It was only when we had chapters in hand that we began to see how the many strands of justice research might be woven together. Chapters 2-4 on the basic forms of justice-procedural, retributive, and distributive-are the lynchpin of the volume; they provide the building blocks that permit us to think and write about each of the other substantive and applied chapters in terms of how they relate to the fundamental forms of justice. In the large central section of the volume (Chapters 5-9), the contributors address many ways in which the justice dimensions relate to one another. Most important for law is the relationship of perceptions of procedural justice and the two types of substantive justice-retributive and distributive.

Employing both large-scale surveys and in-depth interviews, the authors document the mental health effects on workers caused by the closure of four General Motor plants. They paint a portrait of how the social context in which these workers lived played a critical role in their experiences of unemployment or of keeping their jobs when others around them lost theirs. More than simply a study of unemployment and mental health, this book is also a story of coping and resilience.

"The Future of Drug Discovery: Who decides which diseases to treat?" provides a timely and detailed look at the efforts of the pharmaceutical industry and how they relate, or should relate, to societal needs. The authors posit that as a result of increasing risk aversion and accelerated savings in research and development, the industry is not developing drugs for increasingly prevalent diseases, such as Alzheimer s disease, untreatable pain, antibiotics and more. This book carefully exposes the gap between the medicines and therapies we need and the current business path. By analyzing the situation and discussing prospects for the next decade, the "The Future of Drug Discovery" is a timely book for all those who care about the development needs for drugs for disease.

This thought-provoking book is the first to: provide an in-depth, broad perspective on the crisis in drug industry expose the disconnect between what society needs and what the drug companies are working on analyse and project over 10 years into the future explain what it means for scientists and society determine what is needed to be done to make sure that the industry responds to society's needs, remains commercially attractive and answers the question as to who decides which diseases to treat"

China and International Law
Chiu, Hungdah "Chinese Attitudes Toward International Law in the Post-Mao Era" "International Lawyer 21" (1987) * Feinerman, James W. "Sovereign Immunity in the Chinese Case and Its Implications for the Future of International Law" in R. St. J. Macdonald, ed., "Essays in Honor of Wang Tieya" (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1993) * Guiguo, Wang. "China's Return to GATT: Legal and Economic Implications" "Journal of World Trade 28" (1994)
The Regulation of Foreign Trade and Investment in China
Edwards, R. Randle. "Imperial China's Border Control Law" "Journal of Chinese Law 1 " (1987) * Gelatt, Timothy A. "Legal and Extra-Legal Issues in Joint Venture Negotiations" "Journal of Chinese Law 1" (1987) * Stein, Laura A. "Wholly-owned Foreign Ventures in China: A Comparison of 3M China Ltd., Grace China Ltd, and the New Foreign Enterprise Law" "China Law Reporter 4" (1987)
"Foreign-ness," Overseas Chinese, and Greater China
Chen, Tung-Pi "Bridge Across the Formosa Strait: Private Law Relations Between Taiwan and Mainland China" "Journal of International and Comparative Law " (NY Law School) 5 (1984) * Ghai, Yash "The Rule of Law and Capitalism: Reflections on the Basic Law" in R. Wacks, ed., Hong Kong, China, and 1997: "Essays in Legal Theory" (University of Hong Kong Press, 1993) * Rossett, Arthur. "Legal Structures for Special Treatment of Minorities in the People's Republic of China" "Notre Dame Law Review" * Wesley-Smith, Peter "Settlement of the Question of Hong Kong" "California Western International Law Journal 17" (1987)
Privitization
Alford, William P. "Don't Stop Thinking about...Yesterday: Why There Was No Indigenous Counterpart to Intellectual Property Law in Imperial China" "Journal of Chinese Law 7 "(1993) * Art, Robert C. and Minkang Gu. "China Incorporated: The First Corporation Law of the People's Republic of China" "Yale Journal of International Law 20 "(1995) * Cao, Lan. "The Cat that Catches Mice: China's Challenge to the Dominant Privatization Model" "Brooklyn Journal of International Law21"(1995) * Kirby, William C. "China Unincorporated - Company Law and Business-Enterprise in Twentieth Century China" "Journal of Asian Studies 54" (1955) * Quian, Andrew Xuefeng. "Why Does not the Rising Water Lift the Boat? Internationalization of the Stock Markets and the Securities Regulatory Regime in China" "International Lawyer 29" (1995) * Zheng, Henry R. "Bankruptcy Law of the People's Republic of China: Principle, Procedure, and the Practice" "Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 19" (1986)

This book is an original volume of essays that sheds new and critical light on current and emerging filmmaking trends and practices in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. A timely and important contribution to existing scholarship in the field.

Employing both large-scale surveys and in-depth interviews, the authors document the mental health effects on workers caused by the closure of four General Motor plants. They paint a portrait of how the social context in which these workers lived played a critical role in their experiences of unemployment or of keeping their jobs when others around them lost theirs. More than simply a study of unemployment and mental health, this book is also a story of coping and resilience.

Justice-a word of great simplicity and almost frightening scope. When we were invited to edit a volume on justice in law, we joked about the small topic we had been assigned. Often humor masks fear, and this was certainly one of those times. Throughout the project, we found daunting the task of covering even a fraction of the topics that usually fall under the umbrella of justice research in law. Ultimately, the organization of the book emerged from the writing of it. Our introductory chapter provides a road map to how the topics weave together, but as is so often the case it was written last, not ?rst. It was only when we had chapters in hand that we began to see how the many strands of justice research might be woven together. Chapters 2-4 on the basic forms of justice-procedural, retributive, and distributive-are the lynchpin of the volume; they provide the building blocks that permit us to think and write about each of the other substantive and applied chapters in terms of how they relate to the fundamental forms of justice. In the large central section of the volume (Chapters 5-9), the contributors address many ways in which the justice dimensions relate to one another. Most important for law is the relationship of perceptions of procedural justice and the two types of substantive justice-retributive and distributive.

At first glance, Paul's words to the Corinthians about being the body of Christ seem simple and straightforward. He compares them with a human body so that they may be encouraged to work together, each member contributing to the good of the whole according to his or her special gift. However, the passage raises several critical questions which point to its deeper implications. Does Paul mean that the community is 'like' a body or is he saying that they are in some sense a real body? What is the significance of being specifically the body of Christ? Is the primary purpose of the passage to instruct on the correct use of spiritual gifts or is Paul making a statement about the identity of the Christian community? Michelle Lee examines Paul's instructions in 1 Corinthians 12-14 against the backdrop of Hellenistic moral philosophy, and especially Stoicism.

At first glance, Paul's words to the Corinthians about being the body of Christ seem simple and straightforward. He compares them with a human body so that they may be encouraged to work together, each member contributing to the good of the whole according to his or her special gift. However, the passage raises several critical questions which point to its deeper implications. Does Paul mean that the community is 'like' a body or is he saying that they are in some sense a real body? What is the significance of being specifically the body of Christ? Is the primary purpose of the passage to instruct on the correct use of spiritual gifts or is Paul making a statement about the identity of the Christian community? Michelle Lee examines Paul's instructions in 1 Corinthians 12-14 against the backdrop of Hellenistic moral philosophy, and especially Stoicism.