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

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

Author/creator	Petersen, Melody, 1964-
Format	Book and Print
Edition	1st ed.
Publication Info	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Description	432 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Contributor biographical information
Supplemental Content	Publisher description
Subject(s)	Drugs--United States --Marketing. Pharmaceutical industry--Economics --United States. Pharmaceutical industry--Ethics --United States. Biomedical Research--economics --United States. Marketing--Ethics --United States. Physician practice patterns--Ethics --United States. Drug Prescriptions--economics --United States.

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.
Abstract	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.
General note	"Sarah Crichton books."
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-411) and index.
LCCN	2008002097
ISBN	9780374228279 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	0374228272 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	HD 9666.5 .P415 2008	✔ Available	Place Hold