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

[Peter Pitts]

That word is ... crime.
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Love" <james.love@keionline.org>
To: "Ip-health" <ip-health@lists.essential.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 1:26 PM
Subject: [Ip-health] Bruce Sterling (and Ellen 't Hoen) on a better name
than Counterfeit


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
manufactures, that are sold as medicines, and may or may not have the right
medicinal 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
the Sterling list is Pharmatoxins.  (Ellen 't Hoen has her own candidate"
"pharma 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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