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Big bucks, big pharma : marketing disease & pushing drugs / Media Education Foundation ; producer, Ronit Ridberg ; written by Ronit Ridberg [and others].
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising.
- Drugs--Marketing.
- Drugs.
- Health.
- Pharmaceutical industry--Marketing.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- health.
- Genre:
- Streaming video.
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (46 minutes)) : sound, color
- Contained In:
- Media Education Foundation Collection
- Place of Publication:
- [Northampton, MA] : [Media Education Foundation], 2006.
- System Details:
- digital
- Summary:
- Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the advertising tactics of the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose how it uses, manipulates, and sometimes creates illness in the pursuit of profit. With the help of health professionals and media scholars, the film dissects some of the most striking pharmaceutical ads on television, in the end revealing how the industry exploits people's emotions to promote the use of prescription drugs.
- Credits:
- Narrator, Amy Goodman ; editor, Ronit Ridberg ; camera, David Rabinovitz ; music, Andrew Killoy, Peter Brandoli.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed on June 29, 2023).
- Originally produced by Media Education Foundation in 2006.
- OCLC:
- 897765568
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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