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The truth about the drug companies : how they deceive us and what to do about it / Marcia Angell.
Lippincott Library HD9666.5 .A74 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Angell, Marcia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pharmaceutical industry--United States--Costs.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Drugs--Prices--United States.
- Drugs.
- Drugs--Prices.
- Advertising--Drugs.
- Drugs--Research.
- Finance.
- United States.
- Drugs--Research--United States--Finance.
- Prescription pricing--United States.
- Prescription pricing.
- Advertising--Drugs--United States.
- Advertising.
- Pharmaceutical policy--United States.
- Pharmaceutical policy.
- Drug Industry--economics.
- Pharmaceutical Preparations--economics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Drug Industry--economics.
- United States.
- Advertising.
- Pharmaceutical Preparations--economics.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 305 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [2004]
- Summary:
- During her two decades at "The New England Journal of Medicine," Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. Written with fierce passion and substantiated with in-depth research, "The Truth About the Drug Companies" is her searing indictment of an industry that has spun out of control.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Drugs are different
- 1. The $200 billion colossus
- 2. The creation of a new drug
- 3. How much does the pharmaceutical industry really spend on R & D?
- 4. Just how innovative is this industry?
- 5. "Me-too" drugs : the main business of the pharmaceutical industry
- 6. How good are new drugs?
- 7. The hard sell : lures, bribes, and kickbacks
- 8. Marketing masquerading as education
- 9. Marketing masquerading as research
- 10. Patent games : stretching out monopolies
- 11. Buying influence : how the industry makes sure it gets its way
- 12. Is the party over?
- 13. How to save the pharmaceutical industry - and get our money's worth
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0375508465
- OCLC:
- 54035188
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