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Drugs for life : how pharmaceutical companies define our health / Joseph Dumit.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dumit, Joseph.
- Series:
- Experimental futures.
- Experimental futures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pharmaceutical industry--Social aspects--United States.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Drugs--Social aspects--United States.
- Drugs.
- Drug utilization--United States.
- Drug utilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Joseph Dumit argues that underlying Americans' burgeoning consumption of prescription drugs and the skyrocketing cost of healthcare is a relatively new perception of ourselves as inherently ill and in need of chronic treatment.
- Contents:
- Responding to facts
- Pharmaceutical witnessing and direct-to-consumer advertising
- Having to grow medicine
- Mass health : illness is a line you cross
- Moving the lines : deciding on thresholds
- Knowing your numbers : pharmaceutical lifestyles.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613904102
- 9781283591652
- 1283591650
- 9780822393481
- 0822393484
- OCLC:
- 1142793009
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