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

Edition First edition Published New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

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Description 432 pages ; 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 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 Notes "Sarah Crichton books." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Drugs -- United States -- Marketing. Drug Industry -- economics. Drug Industry -- ethics. Biomedical Research -- economics. Marketing -- ethics. Practice Patterns, Physicians' -- ethics. Prescriptions, Drug -- economics SUBJECT United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 LC no. 2008002097 ISBN 9780374228279 hardcover alkaline paper 0374228272 hardcover alkaline paper

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