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Code blue : inside America's medical industrial complex / Mike Magee, MD.
"Profit over health: the fascinating, infuriating story of how we built the world's most expensive, least equitable, health care system--and what we can do to fix it"--Cover.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802129055
- ISBN: 0802129056
- Physical Description: viii, 422 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, [2019]
- Distributor: [Berkeley, California] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-403) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The constant gardner -- Intertwined -- Government steps in -- The war of science against disease -- Advocates -- The house of God -- Insuring complexity -- Masters of manipulation -- Equal parts politics and science -- Strange bedfellows : health care, politics, and the Christian Right -- Nigeria, CROs, and research biases -- Viagra : "everything that rises must converge" -- New rules -- Time to deal -- The MIC : "tapeworm of American economic competitiveveness" -- Appendix: Timeline of Pfizers penalties and transgressions. |