About this title: Critser's brilliantly incisive "Generation Rx" shows how shockingly little people know about the prescription drugs they take. The book encourages every American who has ever taken a prescription drug to look anew at what's in the medicine cabinet, and why.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780618393138ISBN:0618393137
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date Published: 2007-01-05
ISBN-13:9780618773565ISBN:0618773568
Description: Very good. Very minimal damage to the cover (no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks), in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, minimal to no highlighting/under. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: 10-7-05
ISBN-13:9780618393138ISBN:0618393137
Description: FINE. Crisp, clean, unread hardcover with light shelfwear to the dust jacket and a small publisher's mark to one side-NICE! 1.32 lbs. read more
Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Div, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780618393138ISBN:0618393137
Description: Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ D.J. not price clipped; moderate edge wear/ Friends of the Library stamp on title and or front page/ slight readers slant/ corners and spine slightly bumped. read more
Edition: First Edition 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co., Wilmington, Mass
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780618393138ISBN:0618393137
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 308 Pages. Measures: 6-1/4" x 9-1/2" Clean, tight copy with no writing or markings. Not an Ex-Library Book or a Book Club Edition. Colorfully illustrated dust jacket. Includes Introduction, 5 Chapters, Notes, Index, and a photograph with brief biography of the author. read more
"Written from within a conventional, western medicine point of view, "Generation Rx" goes into some detail regarding the decades-long change in American acceptance of pharmaceutical drugs, as we've gone from "take only when nothing else works", to "drugs are natural and normal for all conditions (real or imagined)". He reviews how Big Pharma uses lobbying, government insiders, and advertising to doctors and potential patients to create a "need" for their products that often goes far beyond what's actually medically safe, and what the consequences of our "drugs uber alles" attitude is to ourselves, the environment, and those around us. Not written to talk people out of taking pharmaceutical drugs, but calling on each of us to understand fully what we're signing up for, and to be willing to examine other healthier options."
"A somewhat biased, though informative, view of the pharmaceutical industry over the past 30ish years.
This is actually a pretty good piece of journalism as the author walks through the evolution of pharmaceutical marketing, the industry move to the direct to consumer model, the change in standards at the FDA for speed rather than efficacy, and some of the longterm effects prescription drugs have on the human body. All of these highlight the problems with modern day big pharma.
The only issue with the book is that 95% of it focuses on the harm that drugs and the pharmaceutical industry are causing, and even if there are some big flaws, there are many benefits to modern drugs which the author ignores. The author does realize his bias and offers a bit of a mea culpa in his conclusion by admitting that not all of big pharma is bad and they are not the sole problem. I actually thought the conclusion was one of the better parts of the book because the author went beyond reporting and offered actual solutions to the problems on which he reported, even if many of the solutions are likely unachievable.
Actually, there is one more issue and that is that this book doesn't really have a market. If you're already skeptical of the drug industry, this is just adds more flame to the fire, and if you're not skeptical about the drug industry you probably don't read or only read the bible or some other piece of propaganda from the NRA.
In conclusion, you should be skeptical about prescription drugs and the drug industry, this book is a good journalistic piece about what to be aware of and how we got to where we are, but it does overlook many of the benefits of prescription drugs.
And if you take prescription drugs, i definitely recommend this book."
"Greg Critser explains how the pharmaceutical industry got big and how as an effect, America has become a toxified, guinea-pig, drug-addicted country. Ugh. Did you know the average number of prescription drugs taken per person, annually, was 12 in 2004?
I've only just started this book, but its been enough to make me cap the bottle of the one prescription I had been taking."
"The title of this book is a little misleading because the focus is not really how drugs are altering our minds and bodies, but rather how they came to do so. Some of the chapters are rather dense and include a lot of nitty gritty details including who knew who and said what to whom kind of things. The point this book really drives home is that US healthcare, especially the pharmaceutical industry, is dictated entirely by economic factors. So, it is worth reading but be prepared to be frustrated and saddened by what you read."
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