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by Melody Petersen
How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs.
Petersen's disclosure of facts about Big Pharma, the FDA, and Congress, alongside many human interest stories provide a compelling moral indictment of a corrupt and corrupting industry. People are routinely prescribed the drug "de jour" for little or no medical reason. This book effectively depicts the pharmautical industry as being primarily profit motivated and that attempting to cure a person is indeed a secondary interest. Petersen does her best to educate her readers and sound a moral alarm!
PRAISE for Our Daily Meds
"A devastating, often shocking critique of a once proud industry that has been converted by corporate greed into a vast marketing machine that is often a menace to health. Petersen supports her indictment with an abundance of fascinating detail and human-interest stories. An excellent contribution to the growing demand for better regulation of an industry that has grown way too powerful and heedless of the interests of its customers." Marcia Angell, M.D., and Arnold S. Relman, M.D., Harvard Medical School, and former editors of The New England Journal of Medicine
432 pages, softcover
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