Our Daily Meds How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs

Name: Our Daily Meds How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs
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ISBN: 9780312428259

ISBN-10: 0312428251

ISBN-13: 9780312428259

Edition: 2008

Authors: Melody Petersen

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An "angrily illuminating" (The New York Times)expose of Big Pharma's corrupting influence inAmericatoday In the past few decades, America's big pharmaceutical companies have buried the idea of health under an overwhelming tide of marketing. They invent diseases, in order to sell the pills that "cure" them. They buy off doctors and researchers with resort vacations and flat-screen TVs. They advertise prescription drugs at NASCAR races, on subways, and in churches. These companies now influence every stage of the healthcare system in America--often for the worse. InOurDaily Meds, Melody Petersen connects the dots to show for the first time how subtle, far-reaching and dangerous Big Pharma's…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 3/3/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English