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Forbidden Knowledge
A Self-Advocate's Guide to Managing Your Prescription Drugs
Price:
CA$25.99
ISBN: 9781459750685
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
In Forbidden Knowledge, drug safety advocate Terence Young reveals how Big Pharma came to hold all the power in the pharmaceutical industry, and empowers patients to partner with their doctor to talk openly and plainly about prescription drugs to avoid adverse drug reactions. This is your survival guide to Big Pharma.
Mutant Ecologies
Manufacturing Life in the Age of Genomic Capital
Price:
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9780745344522
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: Pluto Press
How capitalism is reconfiguring the very texture of life
Blind Trust
How Parents with a Sick Child Can Escape the Lies, Hypocrisy and False Promises of Researchers and the Regulatory Authorities
Price:
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9781781612026
Pub Date: January 2022
Imprint: Chelsea Green Publishing
An insider’s look into the world of pediatric drug trials: when research outcomes can quite literally represent life or death
Many parents of children with serious health problems may wonder...
The New Alchemists
The Rise of Deceptive Healthcare
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CA$34.95
ISBN: 9781781611883
Pub Date: July 2021
Imprint: Chelsea Green Publishing
How to identify and see through deceptive and unethical health marketing practices
Health scams come in all shapes and sizes—from the suppression of side-effects from prescription drugs to the...
The Age of Fentanyl
Ending the Opioid Epidemic
Price:
CA$22.99
ISBN: 9781459746701
Pub Date: March 2020
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Dr. Brodie Ramin brings the story of the opioid epidemic into the era of fentanyl, which is the leading cause of overdose death in North America. From his perspective as an addiction doctor working on the front lines of the epidemic, Dr. Ramin discusses the disease and the cure.
Pandemics, Pills, and Politics
Governing Global Health Security
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CA$54.95
ISBN: 9781421425580
Pub Date: June 2018
Imprint: John Hopkins University
The fascinating story of Tamiflu's development and stockpiling against global health threats.orld's most prominent medical countermeasure, Tamiflu.A pill can strengthen national security? The suggestion...
Children and Drug Safety
Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America
Price:
CA$60.95
ISBN: 9780813563879
Pub Date: May 2018
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
This book traces the development, use, and marketing of drugs for children in the twentieth century. It illuminates the historical dimension of a clinical and policy issue with great contemporary significance-many of the drugs administered to children today have never been tested for safety and efficacy in the pediatric population.
Children and Drug Safety
Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America
Price:
CA$188.00
ISBN: 9780813563886
Pub Date: May 2018
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
This book traces the development, use, and marketing of drugs for children in the twentieth century. It illuminates the historical dimension of a clinical and policy issue with great contemporary significance-many of the drugs administered to children today have never been tested for safety and efficacy in the pediatric population.
Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine
Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer
Price:
CA$56.95
ISBN: 9780813587776
Pub Date: January 2018
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
In Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine, medical anthropologist S.D. Gottlieb explores how the vaccine Gardasil-developed against the most common sexually-transmitted infection, human papillomavirus (HPV)-was marketed primarily as a cervical cancer vaccine. Gardasil quickly became implicated in two pre-existing debates-about adolescent sexuality and pediatric vaccinations more generally.
India and the Patent Wars
Pharmaceuticals in the New Intellectual Property Regime
Price:
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9781501713477
Pub Date: November 2017
Imprint: Cornell University Press
India and the Patent Wars contributes to an international debate over the costs of medicine and restrictions on access under stringent patent laws showing how activists and drug companies in low-income...
High
Drugs, Desire, and a Nation of Users
Price:
CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295742328
Pub Date: October 2017
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Whether drinking Red Bull, relieving chronic pain with oxycodone, or experimenting with Ecstasy, Americans participate in a culture of self-medication, using psychoactive substances to enhance or manage...
Blood on Their Hands
How Greedy Companies, Inept Bureaucracy, and Bad Science Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs
Price:
CA$55.95
ISBN: 9780813576220
Pub Date: September 2017
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
By the mid-1980s, over half the hemophiliacs in the United States had become infected with HIV. Blood on Their Hands reveals the toxic combination of corporate greed, governmental complacency, and medical negligence that exacerbated this public health disaster.
Biohackers
The Politics of Open Science
Price:
CA$57.00
ISBN: 9780745332802
Pub Date: May 2013
Imprint: Pluto Press
Explores fundamental changes occurring in the circulation and ownership of scientific information.
Forbidden Knowledge
A Self-Advocate's Guide to Managing Your Prescription Drugs
CA$25.99
ISBN: 9781459750685
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Mutant Ecologies
Manufacturing Life in the Age of Genomic Capital
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9780745344522
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: Pluto Press
How capitalism is reconfiguring the very texture of life
Blind Trust
How Parents with a Sick Child Can Escape the Lies, Hypocrisy and False Promises of Researchers and the Regulatory Authorities
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9781781612026
Pub Date: January 2022
Imprint: Chelsea Green Publishing
The New Alchemists
The Rise of Deceptive Healthcare
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9781781611883
Pub Date: July 2021
Imprint: Chelsea Green Publishing
The Age of Fentanyl
Ending the Opioid Epidemic
CA$22.99
ISBN: 9781459746701
Pub Date: March 2020
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Pandemics, Pills, and Politics
Governing Global Health Security
CA$54.95
ISBN: 9781421425580
Pub Date: June 2018
Imprint: John Hopkins University
Children and Drug Safety
Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America
CA$60.95
ISBN: 9780813563879
Pub Date: May 2018
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Children and Drug Safety
Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America
CA$188.00
ISBN: 9780813563886
Pub Date: May 2018
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine
Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer
CA$56.95
ISBN: 9780813587776
Pub Date: January 2018
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
India and the Patent Wars
Pharmaceuticals in the New Intellectual Property Regime
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9781501713477
Pub Date: November 2017
Imprint: Cornell University Press
High
Drugs, Desire, and a Nation of Users
CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295742328
Pub Date: October 2017
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Blood on Their Hands
How Greedy Companies, Inept Bureaucracy, and Bad Science Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs
CA$55.95
ISBN: 9780813576220
Pub Date: September 2017
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Biohackers
The Politics of Open Science
CA$57.00
ISBN: 9780745332802
Pub Date: May 2013
Imprint: Pluto Press