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This book addresses trends in counterfeit drugs over the past 5-10 years, and discusses approaches to reducing counterfeit medicines in the market. The text shows perspectives from both crime lab and toxicology lab personnel, as well as academic researchers.

Chapter 1 The Forensic Science Experts: Pioneers, Masters, and Students -- chapter 2 Flaws and Fraud: The Accusations against Forensic Science -- chapter 3 Quality Improvement in Forensic Laboratories -- chapter 4 Quality Improvement in Forensic Medicine Facilities -- chapter 5 Celebrity and the Forensic Scientist -- chapter 6 The Future of Forensic Science.

An absence of alternatives : a new framework for understanding corruption -- Alternatives to corruption and the impact of market reform : the arguments and their theoretical implications -- Bribery, favoritism, and clientelism : evidence from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan -- Market actors as an unrealized alternative : the impact of market reforms -- Islamic institutions and secular charities : obstacles to providing substitute resources -- Families : the uneven impact of market reforms -- Reducing corruption : policy recommendations -- Appendix : statistical analysis

Why do ordinary people engage in corruption? In Corruption as a Last Resort, Kelly M. McMann contends that bureaucrats, poverty, and culture do not force individuals in Central Asia to pay bribes, use connections, or sell political support. Rather, corruption is a last resort when relatives, groups in society, the market, and formal government programs cannot provide essential goods and services. Using evidence from her long-term research in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, McMann shows that Islamic institutions, secular charities, entrepreneurs, and banks cannot provide the jobs and credit people need. This drives individuals to illicitly seek employment and loans from government officials.

The context of leadership has changed. Traditionally, leaders worked in organizations in which people largely shared a common culture and set of values. Today, leaders must bring together groups of people with very different histories, perspectives, values, and cultures. The people you lead are likely to be different from you and from each other in significant ways. Leaders today need an awareness of social identity, their own and that of others