Medicating Modern America PDF book is popular Business & Economics book written by Andrea Tone. The book was released by NYU Press on 2007-01-08 with total hardcover pages 272. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read Medicating Modern America by Andrea Tone in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
With Americans paying more than $200 billion each year for prescription pills, the pharmaceutical business is the most profitable in the nation. The popularity
Valium. Paxil. Prozac. Prescribed by the millions each year, these medications have been hailed as wonder drugs and vilified as numbing and addictive crutches.
Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accide
Examines the possible consequences of the growth of prescription drug use and the impact of direct-to-consumer promotion (DTC) and off-label marketing.