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Dirty Medicine: Science big business and the assault

on natural health care. Martin J Walker

 

Published in 1993 (with a coloured cover) and 1994 (with a black and white cover)

ISBN 0 9519646 0 7

Slingshot Publications

Uk: £15                               E-Book available from This Web site for £5 BUY NOW

730 pages.

Full index and some photographs.

 

Dirty Medicine had two printings, selling altogether over 7,000 copies. In 1998, it went out of print and since 2003, it has been sold by The Truth Campaign as an e-book. Price: £10.

For those who can afford second-hand copies, they often crop up on www.abeBooks.com but they can be expensive.

 

At the time of its printing, it had the following text on its back cover.

 

Orthodox medical practitioners, pharmaceutical companies and industrial scientists, have organised against alternative and complementary medicine in Europe and America, since the last century. Dirty medicine traces the history of these campaigns, their proponents and institutions.

 

In 1987 the Wellcome Foundation one of Britain’s largest multinational drug companies, obtained a license for the drug Zidovudine, known as AZT. AZT was heralded by the media and marketed by Wellcome as if it was the answer to the AIDS epidemic. Packaged and promoted like any other commodity, public relations companies and advertising agencies hyped AZT from Romania to Uruguay. In 1992 the Foundation made nearly £200 million profit from the drug.

 

With the marketing of AZT, the campaign against alternative and complementary medicine was suddenly transformed from an academic dispute to a war. Dirty tricks, industrial sabotage and character assassination replaced normal business and scientific practice.

 

Dirty Medicine, is a frightening story of the free market, at war with the powerless. It exposes how, under the guise of government regulation, big business, science and medical orthodoxy defended their products and profits from competition.