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.
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
2012.
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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.