Our daily meds : how the pharmaceutical companies transformed themselves into slick marketing machines and hooked the nation on prescription drugs / Melody Petersen.
Material type:
TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: 432 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780374228279 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0374228272 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Drugs -- United States -- Marketing
- Drug Industry -- economics -- United States
- Drug Industry -- ethics -- United States
- Biomedical Research -- economics -- United States
- Drug Prescriptions -- economics -- United States
- Marketing -- ethics -- United States
- Physician's Practice Patterns -- ethics -- United States
- Drugs -- Marketing
- United States
- HD 9666.5 .P415 2008
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Book
|
Storms Research Center Main Collection | HD 9666.5 .P415 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 98647815 |
Browsing Storms Research Center shelves,Shelving location: Main Collection Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
| HD 9660 .D843 G35 2003 Knowledge and competitive advantage : the coevolution of firms, technology, and national institutions / | HD 9662 .C664 T863 1952 Tupperware : the promise of plastic in 1950s America / | HD 9666.5.A74 2004 The truth about the drug companies : how they deceive us and what to do about it / | HD 9666.5 .P415 2008 Our daily meds : how the pharmaceutical companies transformed themselves into slick marketing machines and hooked the nation on prescription drugs / | HD 9666.95 .J647 F67 1952 Robert Wood Johnson : the gentleman rebel / | HD 9680 .B74 S67 2004 The seven-day weekend : changing the way work works / | HD 9681 .A2 B73 2006 Solar revolution : the economic transformation of the global energy industry / |
"Sarah Crichton books."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
There are no comments on this title.