Big Pharma
ISBN 978-0786717835 | $ 11,96
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By Jackie Law
Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda
The drug business is the most profitable in all of capitalism, journalist Law notes in this scattershot indictment of the pharmaceutical industry.
A dwindling stream of exorbitantly expensive new drugs most of them "me-too" competitors, patent-prolonging reformulations of existing products or marginally effective nostrums for diffuse complaints; vast marketing budgets to cajole consumers into demanding-and doctors into prescribing-unnecessary medications; biased scientific studies and corrupted or intimidated researchers; a regulatory system lobbied and suborned into allowing unsafe and ineffective drugs on the market; and a society that automatically pops a pill for every discontent, real or imagined.
Law offers a comprehensive timely portrait of drug companies' perfidy and greed, studded with case studies of firestorms like the Vioxx scandal and the controversy over the possibly deadly side-effects of anti-depressants.