Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health (Experimental futures)
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (922 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00BM5XKWW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 247 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Drugs for Life is simply superb, a major accomplishment in the study of pharmaceuticals and their expanding relation to life itself. There is no recent scholarly work that attempts or accomplishes what Joseph Dumit does here, tackling the relation between big pharma and clinical epistemology in such a comprehensive and satisfying way. He deftly links critical debates across the life and human sciences, making an important and compelling argument on a matter central to contemporary public debate."—Lawrence Cohen, author of No Aging in India: Alzheimer’s, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things
Leonore Tiefer said Radical, essential reading if you want to understand health and "health". Anthropologist Joe Dumit has written one of the most important and radical (going to the heart of things) books about health, marketing, medical research, and the pharmaceutical industry in recent decades. It needs to be on the shelf of every follower of Angell, Abramson, Avorn, Greene, Cassels, Welch, Hadler, Healy, Brody, Conrad, Goldacre and all the other doctors, journalists and social scientists broadcasting wake-up calls about how our current. "Pharma's plans for you: 5 drugs for each of us, taken for life" according to Jefferson Idealist. A well written book that is a scholarly work. That says volumes for me. The book describes the culture of creating an artificial consensus about the entire structure of medicine, based on what pharmaceutical companies want to sell.Most devastating line in the book was the author's report of a pharmaceutical marketing executive stating the goal is to have everyone on at least 5 drugs for their lifetime. Thus the title: "Drugs for LIfe". We are not i. Five Stars Marilena Perfect
Drugs for Life challenges our understanding of health, risks, facts, and clinical trials, the very concepts used by pharmaceutical companies to grow markets to the point where almost no one can imagine a life without prescription drugs.. gross domestic product by 2020. This perception is based on clinical trials that we have largely outsourced to pharmaceutical companies. For several years, Dumit attended pharmaceutical industry conferences; spoke with marketers, researchers, doctors, and patients; and surveyed the industry's literature regarding strategies to expand markets for prescription drugs. Every year the average number of prescriptions purchased by Americans increases, as do healthcare expenditures, which are pr