PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION
PART I: A FAMILY DOCTOR’S JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY
CHAPTER 1: Medicine in Transition: Caring for Patients at the Crossroads
CHAPTER 2: Spinning the Evidence: Even the Most Respected Medical Journals Are Not Immune
CHAPTER 3: False and Misleading: The Misrepresentation of Celebrex and Vioxx
CHAPTER 4: The Myth of Excellence
CHAPTER 5: A Case in Point: The Saga of Hormone Replacement Therapy
PART II: THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF AMERICAN MEDICINE
CHAPTER 6: American Medicine’s Perfect Storm: A Brief History
CHAPTER 7: The Commercial Takeover of Medical Knowledge
CHAPTER 8: The Snake and the Staff: Duping the Doctors
CHAPTER 9: A Smoking Gun: The 2001 Cholesterol Guidelines
CHAPTER 10: Direct-to-Consumer: Advertising, Public Relations, and the Medical News
CHAPTER 11: Follow the Money: Supply-Side Medical Care
PART III: TAKING BACK OUR HEALTH
CHAPTER 12: The Knee in Room 8: Beyond the Limits of Biomedicine
CHAPTER 13: From Osteoporosis to Heart Disease: What the Research Really Shows About Staying Healthy