Selling Sickness
Subtitle: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients
Publisher: Nation Books
Published: June 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781560258568
Subjects: Industries - General; Pharmacy; Corporate & Business History - General; Business Ethics; Pharmaceutical Industries (Economic Aspects); Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Industries - Manufacturing Industries; Health Care Delivery; Advertising & Promotion; Medical / Pharmacology; Advertising; Drugs; Marketing; Pharmaceutical industry
First sentence: Little known as a health complaint when Henry Gadsden was still managing Merck thirty years ago, the fear of a condition called "high cholesterol" has quickly come to dominate the personal health concerns of tens of millions of people around the globe.