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Our daily meds : how the pharmaceutical companies transformed themselves into slick marketing machines and hooked the nation on prescription drugs / Melody Petersen.
Lippincott Library HD9666.5 .P415 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Petersen, Melody, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drugs--United States--Marketing.
- Drugs.
- United States.
- Marketing.
- Drug Industry--economics.
- Drug Industry--ethics.
- Biomedical Research--economics.
- Marketing--ethics.
- Practice Patterns, Physicians'--ethics.
- Prescriptions, Drug--economics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Drug Industry--economics.
- United States.
- Drug Industry--ethics.
- Biomedical Research--economics.
- Marketing--ethics.
- Practice Patterns, Physicians'--ethics.
- Prescriptions, Drug--economics.
- Physical Description:
- 432 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
- Summary:
- The author shows how corporate salesmanship has triumphed over science inside the biggest pharmaceutical companies and, in turn, how this promotion driven industry has taken over the practice of medicine and is changing American life.
- Contents:
- Creating disease
- Midwestern medicine show
- Chemical imbalance
- The early years
- An awakening : the age of the blockbuster
- Ghostwriters and secret studies
- "Neurontin for everything"
- Altered state
- Deadly doses.
- Notes:
- "Sarah Crichton books."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [409]-411) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780374228279
- 0374228272
- OCLC:
- 166378206
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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