The truth about the drug companies : how they deceive us and what to do about it / Marcia Angell.
The truth about the drug companies : how they deceive us and what to do about it / Marcia Angell.
The truth about the drug companies : how they deceive us and what to do about it / Marcia Angell.
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New York : Random House, c2004.
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N338.43615/ 4
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English
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xx, 305 p. ; 25 cm.
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 goo...
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New York : Random House, c2004.
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1st ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c2004.
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"During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the growing corruption of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over their o...
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The truth about the drug companies : how they deceive us and what to do about it / Marcia Angell.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2004.
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N338.43615/ 4
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74VKD3zvd4EZ
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0375508465 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780375508462 (cloth : alk. paper)
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338.4361510973
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991018978709702626
