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A history of the pharmaceutical industry in the United States and the people who drove its rise reveals the early days of the mass production of penicillin, when scientists willingly shared their information, to today, when concerns about profit shape research into cures for AIDS and cancer. 12,500 first printing.

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Prescription for Profits: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Bankrolled the Unholy Marriage Between Science and Business is a revealing look at the world of research science--and the way it has been corrupted over the past half-century by the lure of big money. Focusing on the booming pharmaceutical industry and the ambitious people who've helped shape it, science writer Linda Marsa convincingly argues that "commercialism has tainted basic science to the point where it now jeopardizes public health."

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