The truth about the drug companies : how they deceive us and what to do about it / Marcia Angell.
Angell, Marcia.
2004
HD9666.5 .A74 2004 (Mapit)
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Title The truth about the drug companies : how they deceive us and what to do about it / Marcia Angell.
Author Angell, Marcia.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 0375508465 (cloth : alk. paper)
Imprint New York : Random House, c2004.
Language English
Description xx, 305 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number HD9666.5 .A74 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.4/36151/0973
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction : Drugs are different
1. The $200 billion colossus
2. The creation of a new drug
3. How much does the pharmaceutical industry really spend on R & D?
4. Just how innovative is this industry?
5. "Me-too" drugs : the main business of the pharmaceutical industry
6. How good are new drugs?
7. The hard sell : lures, bribes, and kickbacks
8. Marketing masquerading as education
9. Marketing masquerading as research
10. Patent games : stretching out monopolies
11. Buying influence : how the industry makes sure it gets its way
12. Is the party over?
13. How to save the pharmaceutical industry - and get our money's worth
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index.

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