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

Petersen, Melody, 1964- (Author).

Summary:

Reveals how pharmaceutical companies have used slick marketing techniques to promote dangerous medications to American physicians and consumers, examining how the industry has transformed the practice of medicine and damaged American life.

Record details

ISBN: 9780374228279
ISBN: 0374228272
Physical Description: 432 pages; 24 cm
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Sarah Crichton books."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.