Selling Sickness
Subtitle: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients
Publisher: Nation Books
Published: June 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781560256977
Subjects: History Of Specific Companies; Marketing; Drug Industry; Pharmaceutical Industries (Economic Aspects); Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Industries - Manufacturing Industries; Business/Economics; Medical; Industries - General; Health Care Delivery; Advertising & Promotion; Medical / Caregiving; Pharmaceutical industry; Corporate & Business History - General; Pharmacy
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.