Selling sickness : how the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies are turning us all into patients / Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels.
"Thirty years ago, Henry Gadsden, the head of Merck, one of the world's largest drug companies, told Fortune magazine that he wanted Merck to be more like chewing gum maker Wrigley's. It had long been his dream, he said, to make drugs for healthy people - so that Merck could "sel...
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Nation Books,
[2005]
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| Summary: | "Thirty years ago, Henry Gadsden, the head of Merck, one of the world's largest drug companies, told Fortune magazine that he wanted Merck to be more like chewing gum maker Wrigley's. It had long been his dream, he said, to make drugs for healthy people - so that Merck could "sell to everyone."" "Selling Sickness reveals how widening the boundaries of illness and lowering the threshold for treatments is creating millions of new patients and billions in new profits, in turn threatening to bankrupt health-care systems all over the world. As more and more of ordinary life becomes medicalized, the industry moves ever closer to Gadsden's dream: "selling to everyone.""--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 254 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-241) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781560256977 1560256974 9781560258568 156025856X |