Big Pharma (book)
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- Big Pharma may also refer to the pharmaceutical lobby.
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| Author | Jacky Law |
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| Country | UK |
| Subject | Pharmaceutical industry |
| Genre | Science writing, medicine, investigative journalism |
| Publisher | Constable (UK), Carroll & Graf (US) |
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Publication date
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16 January 2006 |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 978-1845291396 |
Big Pharma: How the World's Biggest Drug Companies Control Illness is a 2006 book by British journalist Jacky Law. The book examines how major pharmaceutical companies determine which health care problems are publicised and researched.[1]
Outlining the history of the pharmaceutical industry, Law identifies what she says is the failure of a regulatory framework that assumes pharmaceutical companies always produce worthwhile products that society will want.[1]
Law has written about healthcare for 25 years, seven of them as associate editor of Scrip Magazine, a monthly magazine for the drugs industry.[2]
See also
- Bad Pharma (2012) by Ben Goldacre
- Side Effects (2008) by Alison Bass
- Lists about the pharmaceutical industry
- Big Pharma conspiracy theory
