‘By exposing how the pharmaceutical companies actively set outto make us feel sick so they can sell drugs we don’t need, this bril-liant book blows the lid offthe carefully cultivated image of medical authority and benign concern. The drug companies turnout to be the worst sort ofcorporate pirates—read this bookand rage.’
Clive Hamilton, The Australia Institute
‘There are those, it seems, who want to sell us a pill for life itself.It’s a trillion dollar industry and getting bigger every day. Thisremarkable investigation ofthe Sickness Industry is by twoaccomplished writers with an incredible story to tell.’
Robyn Williams, science broadcaster
‘In sickness and in health, private profits are not the same aspublic good, and high medical and drug company incomesdonot equate to great health outcomes. The gains from themodern pharmacy are immense, but when industry hubris anddistortions cause the medicine bottle to fall and smash, theconsequences for ordinary people are enormous. MoynihanandCassels show us where to walk among the shards ofbrokenglass.’
Stephen Leeder, Professor ofPublic Healthand Community Medicine
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