Overdo$ed America
Subtitle: the broken promise of American medicine
By: John Abramson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Medicine -- United States; Medical care -- United States; Pharmaceutical industry -- United States
Other titles: Overdosed America
Description: This book explains how the pharmaceutical companies distort medical knowledge, mislead doctors, and compromise the health of patients.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-310) and index.
Table of contents: title: A family doctor's journey of discovery; title: Medicine in transition: caring for patients at the crossroads; title: Spinning the evidence: even the most respected medical journals are not immune; title: False and misleading: the misrepresentation of Celebrex and Vioxx; title: The myth of excellence; title: A case in point: the saga of hormone replacement therapy; title: The commercialization of American medicine; title: American medicine's perfect storm: a brief history; title: The commercial takeover of medical knowledge; title: The snake and the staff: duping the doctors; title: A smoking gun: the 2001 cholesterol guidelines; title: Direct-to-consumer: advertising, public relations, and the medical news; title: Follow the money: supply-side medical care; title: Taking back our health; title: The knee in room 8: beyond the limits of biomedicine; title: From osteoporosis to heart disease: what the research really shows about staying healthy; title: Healing our ailing health care system, or how to save $500 billion a year while improving Americans' health.