Author: Elizabeth S. Watkins
"Nowhere do pharmaceutical companies sell more drugs, make more money, affect more lives, or wield more power than in the United States. These sophisticated but accessible essays trace the history of eight types of prescription blockbusters, from antibiotics to Viagra, and show how they have changed Americans' thinking about disease, consumer rights, and
normality itself. They force us to confront the paradox of a pill-taking society that wages war on some drugs but avidly seeks out others to
economically profitable if not always
therapeutically benign effect." - David Courtwright, author of Forces of Habit and Dark ParadiseWith Americans paying more than $200 billion in 2005 for…
