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The Big Fix »
Authors: Katharine Greider, Katherine Greider
ISBN-13: 9781586481858, ISBN-10: 1586481851
Format: Paperback
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Date Published: May 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Katharine Greider
Katharine Greider has worked as a newspaper reporter and freelance magazine writer. Her articles, often focusing on health and medical topics, have appeared in a dozen publications from Self to Mother Jones. She lives in New York City with her family.
Book Synopsis
A PublicAffairs Reports Paperback Original
A meticulously reported exposé uncovers exactly how the drug industry boosts sales and bilks consumers in the most lucrative prescription drug market in the world
Table of Contents
| Introduction | ||
| 1 | The Spend Trend | 1 |
| 2 | Patent Shenanigans | 27 |
| 3 | You Say Profits, They Say R&D | 43 |
| 4 | Big Pharma's Winning Pitch | 63 |
| 5 | Getting to You | 87 |
| 6 | Drugs R Us | 107 |
| 7 | Nothin's Gonna Change My World | 143 |
| 8 | The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg | 153 |
| Conclusion | 169 | |
| Sources and Acknowledgments | 175 | |
| Index | 177 |
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