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Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry (Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities)

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I read this for an ethics class I recently took, it was relatively interesting. However, it is a little boring. But what do you expect.

I have been reading a book called Hooked: the Medical Profession and the Pharmaceutical Industry by Howard Brody, MD PhD, of the University of Texas, Galveston, which I highly recommend as an interesting book that adds a lot even for those of you who feel you are "read out" on this topic. The recent episode of comparing new drugs to old drugs given at doses that cause more side effects (in this case antipsychotics) without providing more efficacy (which is stacking the deck in favor of the new drugs) is a pharmaceutical industry tactic that he identifies, although last week's article in the Lancet is the first time we have heard of it as applied to antipsychotics.