Pills, power, and policy : the struggle for drug reform in Cold War America and its consequences / Dominique A. Tobbell.

Since the 1950s, the American pharmaceutical industry has been heavily criticized for its profit levels, the high cost of prescription drugs, drug safety problems, and more, yet it has, together with the medical profession, staunchly and successfully opposed regulation. Pills, Power, and Policyoffer...

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Main Author: Tobbell, Dominique A., 1978-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : New York : University of California Press ; Millbank Memorial Fund, ©2012.
Series:California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 23.
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Summary:Since the 1950s, the American pharmaceutical industry has been heavily criticized for its profit levels, the high cost of prescription drugs, drug safety problems, and more, yet it has, together with the medical profession, staunchly and successfully opposed regulation. Pills, Power, and Policyoffers a lucid history of how the American drug industry and key sectors of the medical profession came to be allies against pharmaceutical reform. It details the political strategies they have used to influence public opinion, shape legislative reform, and define the regulatory environment of prescriptio.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 294 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520952423
0520952421
1280116773
9781280116773
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.