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Generation Rx : how prescription drugs are altering American lives, minds, and bodies / Greg Critser.
This book moves the conversation about prescription drugs to where it hits home: our own bodies. How, Critser 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 about: the 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 the prescription pill party; and how the largely uncharted terrain of polypharmacy (various drugs taken together) has unleashed unanticipated, often deadly, consequences on unwitting patients.--From publisher description.
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- ISBN: 9780618393138
- ISBN: 0618393137
- ISBN: 9780618773565 (pbk)
- ISBN: 0618773568 (pbk)
- Physical Description: x, 308 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-291) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Unbound: why pharmaceutical companies became so aggressive -- We love it!: how the new pharma used its new muscle to create a new you -- The full price: what living in pharma's world means for our bodies -- The end of the great buffer? -- Independence for generation Rx: what can be done. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Fayette Co PL - Connersville | 338.4 CRI (Text) | 39230030836751 | Adult Books | Available | - |
| Indiana State Library - Indianapolis | ISLM RM263 .C75 2005 (Text) | 00000107213530 | Browsing Collection | Available | - |
| Linton PL - Linton | 338.4 CRI (Text) | 30149000344985 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Newburgh Chandler PL - Chandler Branch Library | 338.4 CRI (Text) | 39206019575834 | NonFiction | Available | - |
| West Lafayette PL - West Lafayette | 338.476151 CRI (Text) | 31951002889415 | 2nd Floor - Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| West Lebanon-Pike Twp PL - West Lebanon | 338.4 CRI (Text) | 74861000008458 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Winchester Comm. PL - Winchester | 338.4 CRI (Text) | 76682000113760 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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