ch. 1. Policy, law, and regulation / Susan Winckler -- ch. 2. The political evolution of medicare and prescription drug coverage / Thomas R. Oliver ... [et al.] -- ch. 3. Evolution of the FDA drug approval process / Syed Rizwanuddin Ahmad -- ch. 4. The market for pharmaceuticals : the big picture / David H. Kreling -- ch. 5. Medicare's prescription drug benefit / David J. Gross -- ch. 6. Prescription drugs under medicaid / Linda Elam -- ch. 7. Public health pharmacy / Theodore P. Chiappelli -- ch. 8. Department of veterans affairs pharmacy programs / Michael A. Valentino, Jonathan B. Perlin -- ch. 9. The Department of Defense pharmacy programs / W. Mike Heath -- ch. 10. Outside the pill box : innovative state prescription drug program practices / Brendan Krause, Kimberly Fox -- ch. 11. State versus federal regulation of pharmacy / Melissa Madigan, Ed Rickert -- ch. 12. Evolution and future prospects of pharmaceutical industry regulation / William Wardell ... [et al.] -- ch. 13. Managed care pharmacy : the past and present / John D. Jones -- ch. 14. Pharmaceutical benefits managers / Kimberly P. McDonough -- ch. 15. Risk minimization : a new regulatory directive / Louis A. Morris, Eva Lydick -- ch. 16. Drug importation and reimportation / Albert I. Wertheimer, Thomas Santella -- ch. 17. Structure and dynamics of the pharmaceutical industry / Earlene Lipowski, Patrick McKercher -- ch. 18. Health policy and economic issues in biotechnology and pharmacogenetics / Louis P. Garrison, Jr. -- ch. 19. Promoting pharmaceutical products / Alan Lyles -- ch. 20. Competition : brand-name versus generic drugs / Jeff J. Guo, Christina M.L. Kelton -- ch. 21. Drug insurance design / Earle "Buddy" Lingle -- ch. 22. Evidence-based preferred drug lists / John Santa -- ch. 23. Recent developments in the health technology assessment process / Paul C. Langley -- ch. 24. Why is medication use less than appropriate? / David P. Nau, Duane Kirking -- ch. 25. Diversion, abuse, and other nonmedical use of prescription drugs / Bonnie B. Wilford, Robert L. Dupont -- ch. 26. Drug utilization review : dealing with complexity / Thomas R. Fulda, Theodore M. Collins -- ch. 27. Pharmaceutical care and payment for medication management services / Dale B. Christensen -- ch. 28. Patient compliance / Jon C. Schommer, Reshmi L. Singh -- ch. 29. Electronic technology / Gordon Schiff, Bill G. Felkey -- ch. 30. Health care systems and health insurance from a European perspective / Marion Schaefer, Katja Borchardt.