Drugs for life : how pharmaceutical companies define our health /

Dumit, Joseph.

Drugs for life : how pharmaceutical companies define our health / Joseph Dumit. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2012. - 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Experimental futures .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-256) and index.

Responding to facts -- Pharmaceutical witnessing and direct-to-consumer advertising -- Having to grow medicine -- Mass health : illness is a line you cross -- Moving the lines : deciding on thresholds -- Knowing your numbers : pharmaceutical lifestyles.

9780822348603 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822348719 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2012011596


Primera Jornada de Catalogacion.
Industria farmacéutica--Estados Unidos.
Drogas.
Pharmaceutical industry--Social aspects--United States.
Drugs--Social aspects--United States.
Drug utilization--United States.

HD 9666.5 / D888d 2012

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