E-DRUG: New book about pharmaceutical industry
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Dear E-druggers,
After Marcia Angell's controversial book about the misguided promotional
activities of the (American) pharmaceutical industry (M.Angell: The truth
about the drug companies - How they deceive us and what to do about it,
Random House New York 2004) another of her former colleagues in the
editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine, Jerome Kassirer,
has published a similar book (J.P.Kassirer: On the take - How medicine's
complicity with big business can endanger your health, Oxford UP 2005, USA
$ 28,00 (or EUR 27,80) ISBN 0-19-517684-7), this time with more emphasis on
the corruption and misbehaviour among the (US) medical community as result
of the pressure and promotion by industry. The books are only partially
overlapping; both contain a lot of revealing and highly disturbing
information. Everyone should form his/her own opinion.
Best wishes,
Leo Offerhaus
Netherlands
offerhausl@euronet.nl
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