Author: Jerome P. Kassirer M.D.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: health, endanger, business, complicity, medicine’s
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2004-10-18
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0195176847
ISBN-13: 9780195176841

We all know that doctors accept gifts from drug companies, ranging from pens and coffee mugs to free vacations at luxurious resorts. But as the former Editor-in-Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine reveals in this shocking expose, these innocuous-seeming gifts are just the tip of an iceberg that is distorting the practice of medicine and jeopardizing the health of millions of Americans today. In On the Take, Dr. Jerome Kassirer offers an unsettling look at the pervasive payoffs that physicians take from big drug companies and other medical suppliers, arguing that the billion-dollar ons

Author: Dean Alger
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: distort, competition, endanger, democracy, media, mass, giant, corporations, dominate, megamedia
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0847683893
ISBN-13: 9780847683895

Megamedia offers a unique look at the ominous impacts of this control of the mass media, and suggests ways to hold big corporate media responsible for not only increasing diversity but also presenting society with fair and unbiased information.