Our daily meds : how the pharmaceutical companies transformed themselves into slick marketing machin...
Our daily meds : how the pharmaceutical companies transformed themselves into slick marketing machin...
Our daily meds : how the pharmaceutical companies transformed themselves into slick marketing machines and hooked the nation on prescription drugs / Melody Petersen.
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Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Date
2008.
Call Numbers
N368.47615/14
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
432 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Publication information
Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2008.
Subjects
Subject Keywords
- Drug Industry--economics--United States
- Drug Industry--ethics--United States
- Biomedical Research--economics--United States
- Marketing--ethics--United States
- Physician's Practice Patterns--ethics--United States
- Prescriptions, Drug--economics--United States
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Summary
"In Our Daily Meds, Melody Petersen argues that 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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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.
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"Sarah Crichton books."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N368.47615/14
Record Identifier
74VM8ERBxRZM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM8ERBxRZM
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ISBN
0374228272 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780374228279 (hardcover : alk. paper)
DDC
338.4761510973
MMS ID
991000184799702626
