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1 Online-Ressource (422 p.)
ISBN:
9780520328907
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0520328906
Inhalt:
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- A Note About the Authors -- 1. The Revolution in Drugs -- 2. The Revolution in Drug Making -- 3. Drug Promotion: ""The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth -- 4. The Impossible Dream: Search for the Absolutely Safe Drug -- 5. Drug Efficacy: The Case of the Emperor's Old Drugs -- 6. Drug Quality and the Great Generic Controversy -- 7. Drug Prices: How High Is Too High? -- 8. Pharmacy: Revolution in the Making -- 9. The OTCs: ""If It Wasn't Safe, They Wouldn't Sell It to You Without a Prescription
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10. The Role of the Government -- 11. Adverse Reactions: The Menace of Medications -- 12. The Physician: Healer or Health Hazard -- 13. Future Strategy: Prescriptions for Action -- Appendix 1. Key to Generic and Brand Names and Drug Class -- Appendix 2. Tables -- References -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780520368736
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Silverman, Milton M Pills, Profits, and Politics Berkeley : University of California Press,c2021 ISBN 9780520368736
Sprache:
Englisch
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