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1 online resource (297 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-283) and index. |
| Summary |
"Drug companies insist that [prescription drug] prices reflect the millions they invest in research and development ... Merrill Goozner contends that American taxpayers are in fact footing the bill twice: once by supporting government-funded research and again by paying high prices for prescription drugs. Goozner demonstrates that almost all of the important and life-saving new drugs of the past quarter-century actually originated from research at taxpayer-funded universities and the National Institutes of Health ... [Goozner] suggests ways that the government's role in testing new medicines could be expanded to eliminate private-sector waste driving up the cost of existing drugs--p. [2] of jacket. |
| Contents |
Introduction; PART ONE: BIOHYPE; 1 The Longest Search; 2 Rare Profits; 3 The Source of the New Machine; PART TWO: DIRECTED RESEARCH; 4 A Public-Private Partnership; 5 The Divorce; 6 Breakthrough!; 7 The Failed Crusade?; PART THREE: BIG PHARMA; 8 Me Too!; 9 The 800 Million Pill; 10 The Future of Drug Innovation; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Prescription pricing.
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Prescription pricing. |
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Drugs -- Prices.
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Drugs -- Prices. |
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Pharmaceutical industry.
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Pharmaceutical industry. |
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Consumer education.
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Consumer education. |
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Drug Industry -- economics. |
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Biomedical Research -- economics. |
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Drug Therapy -- economics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Medication. |
| Added Title |
Eight hundred million dollar pill |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Goozner, Merrill, 1950- $800 million pill. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004 0520239458 (DLC) 2003063422 (OCoLC)53223691 |
| ISBN |
9780520939288 (electronic book) |
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052093928X (electronic book) |
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1417510625 (electronic book) |
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9781417510627 (electronic book) |
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1597344508 (electronic book) |
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9781597344500 (electronic book) |
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1282358243 |
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9781282358249 |
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0520239458 |
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9780520239456 |
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