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ADHD Nation: children, doctors, Big Pharma, and the making of an American epidemic by Schwarz, Alan
Call Number: RJ506.H9 S39 2016
Publication Date: 2016
America and the pill: a history of promise, peril, and liberation by May
Call Number: HQ766.5.U5 M39 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Anatomy of an epidemic : magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America by Robert Whitaker
Call Number: RC443 .W437 2010 [Hollins]
Publication Date: 2010
Antibiotic era: reform, resistance, & the pursuit of a rational therapeutics by Podolsky
Publication Date: 2015
Available BOTH online and in print (at: RM267.P64 A58 2015)
Antibiotics : the perfect storm by David M. Shlaes
Call Number: RM267 .S55 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Bad pharma : how drug companies mislead doctors & harm patients by Goldacre
Call Number: RM301.27 .G65 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Before Prozac: the troubled history of mood disorders in psychiatry by Shorter
Publication Date: 2009
Available BOTH online and in print (at: RC537 .S52 2009)
Blockbuster drugs: the rise and fall of the pharmaceutical industry by Li
Call Number: [request from courier, Hollins U book]
Publication Date: 2014
Brief history of pharmacy: humanity's search for wellness by Zebroski
Call Number: RS 61 Z47 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Building a national framework for the establishment of regulatory science for drug development by National Academies Press
Call Number: [e-Book]
Publication Date: 2011
Chemistry of antibiotics and related drugs by Bhattacharjee, Mrinal
Call Number: request from Hollins; use courier
Publication Date: 2016
Clinical trials : what patients and healthy volunteers need to know by Lorna Speid
Call Number: R853.C55 S625 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Drugs and the human body : with implications for society by Ken Liska
Call Number: RM300 .L53 2009
Publication Date: 2009
Drugs for life : how pharmaceutical companies define our health by Joseph Dumit
Call Number: HD9666.5 .D86 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Drug truths : dispelling the myths about pharma R&D by John L. LaMattina
Call Number: RM301.25 .L36 2009
Publication Date: 2009
End of illness by David B. Agus ; with Kristin Loberg
Call Number: RA776.5 .A38 2011
Publication Date: 2012
See especially chapter 8. The truth about synthetic shortcuts: how to save hundreds of dollars a year and rethink the need for supplements and vitamins
Ethics of invention by Jasanoff, Sheila
Call Number: T14 .J34 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Chapter 7 has a section in Generic Drugs
Experiment Eleven : dark secrets behind the discovery of a wonder drug [streptomycin] by Peter Pringle
Call Number: RM666.S73 P75 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Failure: why science is so successful by Firestein, Stuart
Call Number: BF575.F14 F567 2016
Publication Date: 2016
see Chapter 13: Pharma failure
FDA in the 21st century: the challenges of regulating drugs and new technologies by Fernandez-Lynch
Publication Date: 2015
Available BOTH online, and in print (KF3871 .F34 2015)
Future of drug discovery : who decides which diseases to treat? by Bartfai
Call Number: RM301.25 .B37 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Generic challenge : understanding patents, FDA and pharmaceutical life-cycle management by Martin A. Voet
Call Number: KF3894.G45 V6 2011
Publication Date: 2011
Health United States 2013
Call Number: Ref. RA407.3 .U57a 2013
Publication Date: 2013
with Special feature on: Prescription Drugs.
Increasing transparency in the pricing of health care services and pharmaceuticals by U.S. Congressional Budget Office
Publication Date: 2008 [e-document]
Know your chances : understanding health statistics by Steven Woloshin, Lisa M. Schwartz, and H. Gilbert Welch
Call Number: RA427.3 .W65 2008
Publication Date: 2008
Drug examples: Nolvadex, Lunesta, Zocor - television ads, public service announcements, and media reports
Love and science, a memoir by Vilcek, Jan
Call Number: R 154 B623 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Remicade (TNF-blocking agent) used against multiple autoimmune conditions. One of the world's 5 top-selling prescription drugs.
Modern pharmaceutical industry: a primer by Thomas M. Jacobsen, Albert I. Wertheimer
Call Number: RM301.25 .M635 2010
Publication Date: 2010
National strategy & action plan for combating antibiotic resistant bacteria by Phillips
Call Number: QR177 .N37 2015
Publication Date: 2015
-includes Executive Order 13676 (Barack Obama)
Our daily meds : how the pharmaceutical companies transformed themselves into slick marketing machines and hooked the nation on prescription drugs by Melody Petersen
Call Number: HD9666.5 .P415 2008
Publication Date: 2008
Phake : the deadly world of falsified and substandard medicines by Roger Bate
Call Number: HD9665.5 .B38 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Phantom billing, fake prescriptions, and the high cost of medicine : health care fraud and what to do about it by Terry L. Leap
Publication Date: 2011
Available BOTH online, and in print (RA395.A3 L4125 2011)
Pharmageddon by David Healy
Publication Date: 2012
Available BOTH online, and in print (HD9665.5 .H43 2012)
PharmaPhobia by Stossel
Call Number: RA418.3.U6 S86 2015
Publication Date: 2015
Pharmocracy: value, politics, and knowledge in global biomedicine by Sunder Rajan, Kaushik
Call Number: HD9672.I42 S68 2017
Publication Date: 2017
Pills, power, and policy : the struggle for drug reform in Cold War America and its consequences by Dominique A. Tobbell
Publication Date: 2012
Available BOTH online, and in print (RS122 .T59 2012)
Predictive toxicology in drug safety by Jinghai J. Xu, Laszlo Urban
Call Number: [e-Book]
Publication Date: 2011
Provides information on the present knowledge of drug side effects and their mitigation strategy during drug discovery, gives guidance for risk assessment, and promotes evidence-based toxicology
Prescribed : writing, filling, using, and abusing the prescription in modern America by Jeremy A. Greene and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins
Call Number: RM139 .P74 2012
Publication Date: 2012
A Prescription for savings: reducing drug costs to Medicare by U.S. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publication Date: 2011 [e-document]
Price of Global health: DRUG PRICING..., 2d edition by Schoonveld, Ed
Call Number: HD9665.5 .S364 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Price of Sovaldi and its impact on the U.S. healthcare system by U.S. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publication Date: 2015 [e-Document]
Hepatitis C drug & Gilead Sciences pharm. co.
Profits before people? ethical standards and the marketing of prescription drugs by Weber
Publication Date: 2006 [e-book]
Quest for the cure : the science and stories behind the next generation of medicines by Brent R. Stockwell
Publication Date: 2011
Available BOTH online and in print (RM301.25 .S76 2011)
Real world drug discovery : a chemist's guide to biotech and pharmaceutical research by Robert M. Rydzewski
Call Number: RM301.25 .R93 2008
Publication Date: 2008
Reasonable Rx : solving the drug price crisis by Stan Finkelstein, Peter Temin
Call Number: HD9666.4 .F55 2008
Publication Date: 2008
Remaking the American patient: how Madison Avenue and modern medicine turned patients into consumers by Tomes, Nancy
Call Number: Hollins book; request from courier
Publication Date: 2016
Available BOTH online, and in print (from Hollins University)
Rigor mortis: how sloppy science creates worthless cures... by Harris
Call Number: R852 .H37 2017
Amgen biotech labs, led by C. Glenn Begley, scoured the academic research literature looking for promising leads to develop new pharmaceuticals. But they could NOT reproduce the results for 90% of the "promising" experiments they identified.
Risk, chance, and causation : investigating the origins and treatment of disease by Bracken
Publication Date: 2013
Available BOTH online, and in print (RB151 .B73 2013)
Risks of prescription drugs by Donald W. Light
Publication Date: 2010
Available BOTH online, and in print (RA401.A3 R57 2010)
Securing our nation's prescription drug supply chain : hearing before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Rep...2013 by U.S. Senate
Call Number: [e-Report]
Publication Date: 2014
Selling science : polio and the promise of gamma globulin by Mawdsley, Stephen R
Publication Date: 2015 [e-Book]
Subject: Clinical trials -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Sex, lies + pharmaceuticals : how drug companies plan to profit from female sexual dysfunction by Ray Moynihan and Barbara Mintzes
Call Number: HD9665.5 .M692 2010
Technological challenges in antibiotic discovery & development : a workshop summary by Friedman / National Academies Press
Publication Date: 2014 [e-Book]
Threat Report 2013 : Antimicrobial Resistance by CDC
Publication Date: 2013 [e-Book]
Triumph of the heart : the story of statins by Jie Jack Li
Publication Date: 2009
Available BOTH online, and in print (RM666.S714 L5 2009)
Vaccine court : the law and politics of injury by Kirkland, Anna
Call Number: KF3808 .K57 2016
Publication Date: 2016
The federal court system responsible for not just compensating individuals and families injured by vaccines, but also adjudicating competing claims of risk, science, and expertise.
When experiments travel: clinical trials and the global search for human subjects by Petryna
Publication Date: 2009 [e-book]

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