Generation Rx (eBook)

How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies

Greg Critser (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2005 | 1. Auflage
320 Seiten
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Verlag)
978-0-547-56161-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Greg Critser's brilliantly incisive Generation Rx moves the conversation about prescription drugs to where it hits home: our own bodies. How, he asks, has 'big pharma' created a nation of pharmaceutical tribes, each with its own unique beliefs, taboos, and brand loyalties? How have powerful chemical compounds for chronic diseases, once controlled by physicians, become substances we feel entitled to, whether we need them or not? How did we come to hate drug companies but love their pills?

Read on in Generation Rx for:

— exclusive interviews with the strategists, scientists, and current and former heads of GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Merck, Roche, and more

— a first-ever, inside look at the rollicking business story behind pharma's rise to power

— the dramatic effects our drug culture is having on our major organs, from the liver to the heart to the brain

— why old bodies and young bodies are the biggest, and riskiest, arenas for our great American prescription pill party

— how the largely uncharted terrain of polypharmacy (various drugs taken together) has unleashed unanticipated, often deadly, consequences on unwitting patients

Generation Rx will make every American who has ever taken a prescription drug look anew at what's in our medicine cabinets, and why.

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This in-depth look at the rise of Big Pharma and pill marketing is "e;a page-turner"e; (Booklist, starred review). A finalist for a PEN America Literary Award for Research Nonfiction, this book takes a deep look at how the pharmaceutical industry with some help from the medical and insurance fields and from American consumers themselves has pushed its products, often at the expense of our health. Generation Rx reveals the roots of many of the widespread societal problems we face today, explaining how marketing efforts changed powerful chemical compounds for chronic diseases, once controlled by physicians, into substances we feel entitled to, whether we need them or not. Using exclusive interviews with the strategists, scientists, and current and former heads of GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Merck, Roche, and more, the author of Fat Land presents a "e;fascinating and disturbing"e; story of business interests unleashed on an unsuspecting public, and a cultural shift that has caused lasting and sometimes lethal damage (New Scientist). "e;What Fast Food Nation did for the way Americans eat, Greg Critser does for the way we medicate ourselves."e; Michael Pollan, bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pharmazie ► PTA / PKA
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• ISBN-10: 0-547-56161-X / 054756161X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-547-56161-5 / 9780547561615