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Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs Are Transforming American Lives, Minds, and Bodies
by Critser, Greg
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0618393137
- ISBN 13
- 9780618393138
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New Braunfels, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin College Div, 2005. Hardcover. Good. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ D.J. not price clipped; moderate edge wear/ Friends of the Library stamp on title and or front page/ slight readers slant/ corners and spine slightly bumped
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Harvest Moon Farm Book Cellar
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014125
- Title
- Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs Are Transforming American Lives, Minds, and Bodies
- Author
- Critser, Greg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0618393137
- ISBN 13
- 9780618393138
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin College Div
- Place of Publication
- Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2005
- Product_type
- 2
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About Harvest Moon Farm Book Cellar
Harvest Moon Farm Book Cellar is a family owned and operated on-line bookstore. We are building a small non-conventional farm in the Texas Hill Country. We operate our bookstore out of a small outbuilding. Our books are located by searching every garage sale and thrift store, that we can, in over seven counties. We love the thrill of the hunt and the satisfaction of placing one person's unwanted book in the hands of someone who needs it (it also helps pay for the books we get to keep for ourselves).
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