The Internet and prescription medicines: A legal minefield?

Journal of Medical Marketing: Device, Diagnostic and Pharmaceutical Marketing

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 319-325

  Driscoll, Bryan ^a  

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Author keywords

e health; Internet; law; online pharmacies; prescription medicines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990385972     PISSN: 17457904     EISSN: 17457912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jmm.5040043     Document Type: Article

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