Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960601085259.368B-100000@nbc.ksu.ksu.edu> Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 11:42:26 -0500 From: kerry miller <mailto:astingsh@KSU.KSU.EDU> Subject: VITA Newsletter review, June 96. To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
THE "NEW" TROPICAL SURGERY Paul Chinnock, 1996. "Tropical Surgery: A New Discipline?" (Editorial.) Africa Health, Volume 18, No. 2, page 3.In surgery, the technology gap between North and South is increasing year by year, for several reasons. For one thing, pharmaceutical manufacturers "abandon older products so they can concentrate on meeting the more sophisticated requirements of the richer nations." Thus, the anesthetics spinal nupercaine and trilene "are no longer in production and ether and ketamine could be threatened," even though the World Health Organization has recommended them as "essential." Such materials are still important in the Third World where the buying power of developing countries is poor.
ÿÿÿÿ It is a shame that the list cannot manage to discuss a topic such as this in an equitable manner.
kerry mailto:astingsh@ksu.ksu.edu