Of pills and profits: In defense of big pharma

Commentary

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 21-28

  Huber, Peter W ^a  

^a Manhattan Institute   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

DRUG; INDUSTRIAL REGULATION; PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY; PROFITABILITY;

EID: 33745993887     PISSN: 00102601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What To Do About It by Marcia Angell (Random House, 319 pp., $24.95).
2. On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health by Jerome P. Kassirer (Oxford, 251 pp., $30.00).
3. The Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers by Katharine Greider (Public Affairs, 189 pp., $14.00).
4. Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda by Jacky Law (Carroll & Graf, 266 pp., $15.95).
5. "How a Beauty Regime Salvaged a Cure for Sleeping Sickness," New York Times, March 29, 2006.
6. This episode is described in The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis by Paul Offit (Yale University Press, 256 pp., $27.50).
7. See The Vaccine Controversy: The History, Use, and Safety of Vaccinations by Kurt Link (Praeger, 208 pp., $34.95).