December 22, 1975

Dr. William C. Cray

Vice Presitdent

Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association
1155 Fifteenth Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20005

Dear Dr. Cray,

This {s to ask you whether the PMA has, or could make available,
a bibliography of journal articles and books that pertain to drug policy
analysis. Besides my own personal interest in this field, and its bearing
on my teaching responsibilities in health policy heaeeat Stanford, this
material would also be quite useful in other contexts, for example my
consultations with the appropriate divisions at the World Health
Organization.

I already receive regular mailings from the PMA with respect to
your own positions on a number of current issues. What I had in mind
in my present request would be a more comprehensive bibliography that
would bear on all sides of the kinds of questions that are pertinent to
the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry and of its products. Even
though, as is inevitable in any such controversial area, a certain fraction
of the 4iterature will be hostile to the positions that you take, I still
believe that your interest in seeking a rational approach to these matters
would be furthered if you could help furnish this kind of background
resource material.

In parallel with this request I am going to ask MEDLARS to do a search
along somewhat similar lines and I will, of course, be ahppy to share the
results of that with you if this is of any interest to you.

Sincerely yours,

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics

JL/rr