The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs Paperback - 2005 - 1st Edition
by Merrill Goozner
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Eugene Goldwasser retired in 2002 after a forty-seven-year career as a biochemistry professor at the University of Chicago.
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"The $800 Million Pill is a masterful work of explanatory and investigative journalism. Merrill Goozner has versed himself in the interlocking worlds of medicine, business, politics, and basic science to explain how pharmaceutical breakthroughs truly occur. He also explains why drug costs are now so needlessly high. This is a compelling and important book."--James Fallows of The Atlantic Monthly, author of Breaking the News
"Merrill Goozner does a superb job at explaining just how the pharmaceutical industry gets away with systematic overcharging, and why bio-medical advances do not require the current profiteering. This is the definitive book on this vital topic."--Robert Kuttner, Co-Editor of The American Prospect and author of Everything for Sale
"Why do your prescription drugs cost so much? The real answers may surprise you. In a lively and straightforward narrative, veteran journalist Merrill Goozner goes behind the headlines and pharmaceutical industry spin to uncover the politics and the practices that drive up drug costs. His diagnosis and prescriptions make a valuable contribution to the growing national debate over safe, quality and affordable health care for all Americans."--Clarence Page, syndicated columnist for the Chicago Tribune
"Merrill Goozner has written an important book. The high-stakes national debate over what to do about prescription drug coverage and costs too often suffers from a dearth of facts and analysis. This volume helps to fill that gap by illuminating the seemingly opaque world of pharmaceutical research and development."--Susan Dentzer, Health Correspondent for The News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS
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- Title The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs
- Author Merrill Goozner
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 297
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, Ca
- Date 2005-10-10
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780520246706 / 0520246705
- Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 8.8 x 6.04 x 0.86 in (22.35 x 15.34 x 2.18 cm)
- Reading level 1430
- Library of Congress subjects Pharmaceutical industry, Consumer education
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003063422
- Dewey Decimal Code 338.436
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