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Super Pills : The Prescription Drugs and How We've Been Trained to Love Them

2006

Raincoast Books gratefully acknowledges the ongoing support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council and the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP). [...] We are all waging the good fight, from the war on cancer to the battle of the bulge. [...] The first magic bullets were the antibiotics — hailed as the triumph of modern medicine when they first appeared in the 19305. [...] The U. S. Congress reacted quickly to the scandal, replacing the 1906 Food and Drug Act with the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938. [...] More importantly, as dozens of companies started manufacturing penicillin in the 19403, the market was soon flooded and competition drove down the cost of the drug by 90 percent.5 Prices continued to fall into the 19505, prompting many companies to get out of the antibiotics business.
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Authors

Steven Manners

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Control Number Identifier
CaOOCEL
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
615/.1/09
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
22
General Note
Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
ISBN
1551928574 9781459318434
LCCN
RM301.25
LCCN Item number
M35 2006eb
Modifying agency
CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
CaOONL
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (258 p.)
Publisher or Distributor Number
CaOOCEL
Rights
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
System Control Number
(CaBNVSL)thg00603197 (OCoLC)244770729 (CaOOCEL)411184
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Transcribing agency
CaOONL

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