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Index
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Introduction
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
Chapter 14: Healing Our Ailing Health Care System, or How to Save $500 Billion a Year While Improving Americans’ Health
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
P.S.
About the Author
About the Book
Read On
Notes
Praise
Copyright
About the Publisher
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