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Author Petersen, Melody, 1964-

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

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  338.4761 Pet    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 432 p.; 24 cm.
Note "Sarah Crichton books."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Source ILDP 2/2009 PPL
NBK 2/9 PPL
Subject Drugs -- United States -- Marketing.
Drug Industry -- economics -- United States.
Drug Industry -- ethics -- United States.
Biomedical Research -- economics -- United States.
Marketing -- ethics -- United States.
Physician's Practice Patterns -- ethics -- United States.
Prescriptions, Drug -- economics -- United States.
ISBN 9780374228279
0374228272

 
    
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