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Drugs for life : how pharmaceutical companies define our health /

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 treatment.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Dumit, Joseph
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2012.
Collection:Experimental futures.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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
  • Living in a world of surplus health: frequently asked questions.