Over the last twenty-five years, medication and consumerism have been on an untreated accident course, but, up until now, the fallout from their impact has yet to be totally discovered. A writer for The New Yorker and The Atlantic Regular Monthly, Carl Elliott ventures into the uncharted dark side of medication, shining a light on the series of social and legal changes that have actually compromised old-style doctoring to the values of consumer industrialism. We meet the drug representatives who will do almost anything to make quota in an ever-expanding arms race of pharmaceutical gift-giving; the “thought leaders” who travel the world to inform the medical community about the wonders of the latest release; even, lastly, the ethicists who oversee all that commercialized medicine has to use from their pharma-funded perches.
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