BOOK NOTES Social Medicine In New Zealand
“Money Medicine and the Masses” by Albert D. G. Blanc, deals with the whole subject of medicine with particular reference to New Zealand. The book includes an attack on the Press “whose hospitality shown to patent medicines and their suppression of any criticism merits a certain amount of blunt speaking.” It deals with Workers, Compensation, and describes how gullible the New Zealand public has been concerning the advertising of cheap medicines. “Quacks” are shown up and manufacturers are said to be an insidious band of people more intent on gaining money than improving general medicine. This is an enlightening book; in fact no other book published in New Zealand has surpassed its honest criticism and fearlessness in exposing the methods employed by big business. (Copies at Brisbane’s Book Shop Greymouth).
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Grey River Argus, 5 November 1949, Page 7
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