Our daily meds : how the pharmaceutical companies transformed themselves into slick marketing machines and hooked the nation on prescription drugs / Melody Petersen.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: 432 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374228279 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0374228272 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD 9666.5 .P415 2008
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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.
Summary: 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.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection HD 9666.5 .P415 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98647815

"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.

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