Drugs for life : how pharmaceutical companies define our health / Joseph Dumit.
By: Dumit, Joseph.
Series: Experimental futures.Durham : Duke University Press, 2012Description: 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780822348719 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Pharmaceutical industry -- Social aspects -- United States | Drugs -- Social aspects -- United States | Drug utilization -- United StatesGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 338.4/761510973Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | HD9666.5 .D86 2012 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000005831 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-256) and index.
Responding to facts -- Pharmaceutical witnessing and direct-to-consumer advertising -- Having to grow medicine -- Mass health : illness is a line you cross -- Moving the lines : deciding on thresholds -- Knowing your numbers : pharmaceutical lifestyles.