[Ip-health] Bruce Sterling (and Ellen 't Hoen) on a better name than Counterfeit

[James Love]

I asked Bruce Sterling*, the science fiction writer, if he could come up
with a better name than "counterfeiting" to describe the distribution
of:

1.  medicines that may involve traditional counterfeiting
2.  medicines that are sold without any traceable name in terms of manufact=
ures, that are sold as medicines, and may or may not have the right medicin=
al properties, and
3.  medicines that have false dates or other information that hide problems=
 with quality and identity of manufacture

Bruce is somewhat famous for coining neologisms.  My personal favorite of t=
he Sterling list is Pharmatoxins.  (Ellen 't Hoen has her own candidate" "p=
harma fraud")

*(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Sterling)


-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Bruce Sterling ..........
To: James Love <james.love@keionline.org>
Subject: Re: Better name than Counterfeit?
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 09:48:11 -0700

*Quackery

*Drug fraud

*Piraceuticals

*Pharmatoxins

*Narcotoxins

*Health crimes

*Black medicines

*Illness providers

*Proscription drugs

*Pharmacorruption


good luck

bruces


On May 22, 2008, at 6:35 AM, James Love wrote:

> Dear Bruce,
>
> I am at the World Health Organization with . . . The are currently using =
the term "counterfeit" to
> describe a large range of problems with the illegal trade in medicines
> that "are not what they say they are."
>
> 1.  medicines that may involve traditional counterfeiting
> 2.  medicines that are sold without any traceable name in terms of
> manufactures.. that are sold as medicines, and may or may not have the
> right medicinal properties
> 3.  medicines that have false dates or other information that hide
> problems with quality and identity of manufacture
>
> We are looking for a term to describe the illegal trade in these
> medicines, which cause many health problem, particularly in developing
> countries.  There are significant problems with overusing the term
> "counterfeit" to describe all of these cases, and we are looking for a
> better term.
>
> You are known for coming up with names for things, and I wondered
> if you
> could help with this.
>
> Jamie
>


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