Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health (Experimental Futures)

Joseph Dumit argues that underlying Americans' burgeoning consumption of prescription drugs and the skyrocketing cost of healthcare is a relatively new perception of ourselves as inherently ill and in need of chronic treatment.

• | Author: Joseph Dumit
• | Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• | Publication Date: September 03, 2012
• | Number of Pages: 280 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0822348713
• | ISBN-13: 9780822348719