Angell, Marcia

Angell, Marcia. The Truth about the Drug Companies How They Deceive Us and What to Do about It. New York Random House, 2004. Of the numerous books critical of the drug companies, this one has received the most attention and makes a persuasive if one-sided case. The author, a physician... 

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Angell, Marcia. 2005. The Truth about the Drug Companies How They Deceive Us and What to Do about It. New York Random House. 

Marcia Angell, physician, former editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, and senior lecturer in the department of social medicine at Harvard Medical School. She has been a vocal critic of the pharmaceutical industry, arguing that the companies focus on profits at the expense of health, manipulate scientific research, and deceive the public with their advertising. She has also criticized physicians and researchers for their close ties to the drug industry and potential lack of independence in their research. 

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