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Drugs for life : how pharmaceutical companies define our health / Joseph Dumit

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Experimental futuresPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2012Edition: Online-AusgDescription: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (262 p.)) : illISBN:
  • 9781283591652
  • 1283591650
  • 9780822393481
  • 0822348608
  • 0822348713
  • 9780822348603
  • 9780822348719
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: 9780822348719 | 9780822348603 | 1283591642 | Erscheint auch als: Drugs for life Druck-Ausgabe | Erscheint auch als: Drugs for life. Druck-Ausgabe Durham, NC [u.a.] : Duke University Press, 2012. XII, 262 S.DDC classification:
  • 338.4761510973
  • 338.4/761510973 23
RVK: RVK: LC 56000LOC classification:
  • HD9666.5
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Joseph Dumit argues that underlying Americans' burgeoning consumption of prescription drugs and the skyrocketing cost of healthcare is a relatively new perception of ourselves as inherently ill and in need of chronic treatmentPPN: PPN: 809880539Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-26-MYL | ZDB-30-PQE | BSZ-30-PQE-S2NUFH
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