To diagnose, prescribe and dispense: whose right is it? The ongoing struggle between pharmacy and medicine in South Africa

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This article examines the struggle between the pharmaceutical industry and doctors regarding the right to prescribe and dispense medication. The author, focusing on the growing controversy in South Africa, argues the pharmacies are successfully curtailing the physicians' rights to prescribe and dispense medication in an effort to gain control over what they consider their jurisdiction.

Management, Drugs, Pharmaceutical industry, Practice, Physicians, Medical professions, Social policy, Prescriptions (Drugs)

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Race and nation in post-apartheid South Africa

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Race relations and nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa are discussed. Topics include patriotism, nationalism and non-racialism; legacies of racialization; black empowerment in relation to new class divisions; and political education for nation-building.

Social aspects, Race relations, Nationalism

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Democratic transition and consolidation in South Africa: the advice of 'the experts'

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Some members of the African National Congress (ANC) sense that involvement in social movements would be construed as 'disloyal'. The involvement of people in self-empowering organs of direct and participatory democracy is important as a manifestation of pluralism.

Evaluation, Social movements, Pluralism

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