Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-411) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Our daily meds

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

166378206

Responsibility statement

Melody Petersen

Sub title

how the pharmaceutical companies transformed themselves into slick marketing machines and hooked the nation on prescription drugs

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

Table Of 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

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