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Powerful medicines : the benefits, risks, and costs of prescription drugs / Jerry Avorn.
Holman Biotech Commons HD9666.5 .A94 2004
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Lippincott Library HD9666.5 .A94 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Avorn, Jerry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pharmaceutical industry--United States--Costs.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Prescription pricing--United States.
- Prescription pricing.
- Drugs--Side effects.
- United States.
- Drugs--Prescribing--United States.
- Drugs.
- Drugs--Prescribing.
- Drugs--Side effects--United States.
- Drug Industry.
- Drug Costs.
- Fees, Pharmaceutical.
- Pharmaceutical Preparations--admininistration and dosage.
- Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions.
- Medical Subjects:
- Drug Industry.
- United States.
- Drug Costs.
- Fees, Pharmaceutical.
- Pharmaceutical Preparations--admininistration and dosage.
- Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 448 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004.
- Summary:
- Based on Dr. Avorn's own pioneering studies of medication use as well as his 30 years of experience as a clinician, researcher, and educator, this timely and provocative investigation reports how prescription drugs are approved, priced, promoted, prescribed, and often misused.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Different Strokes 3
- Part 1 Benefits
- 1 The Pregnant Mare's Lesson 23
- 2 Leaving the Dark Ages Behind, Mostly 39
- Part 2 Risks
- 3 The Fat is in the Fire 71
- 4 Too Sweet to Be True 85
- 5 Cold Comfort 96
- 6 Getting Risks Right 102
- 7 The Most Vulnerable Patients 126
- 8 Enter Doctor Faustus 139
- 9 Imperfect Measures 149
- 10 Whose Risk Is It, Anyway? 160
- 11 A Balancing Act 172
- Part 3 Costs
- 12 Live Cheap or Die 189
- 13 Filling the Pipeline 198
- 14 What the Traffic Will Bear 217
- 15 Navigating the Third Dimension 235
- Part 4 Information
- 16 Signals, Noise, and the Big Void 269
- 17 Informational Kudzu 292
- 18 Devising an Antidote 313
- 19 The Emperor's Fashion Critics 339
- 20 Same Language, Different Accents 348
- Part 5 Policy
- 21 Pulling the Facts Together 359
- 22 Turning Knowledge into Action 388
- 23 Markets and Medicines 401
- Epilogue: The Triple-Edged Sword 417.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-436) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0375414835
- OCLC:
- 53919371
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