Big Pharma (book)

Big Pharma
Author	Jacky Law
Country	UK
Subject	Pharmaceutical industry
Genre	Science writing, medicine, investigative journalism
Publisher	Constable (UK), Carroll & Graf (US)
Publication date	16 January 2006
Pages	256
ISBN	978-1845291396

Big Pharma may also refer to the pharmaceutical lobby.

Big Pharma: How the World's Biggest Drug Companies Control Illness is a 2006 book by British journalist Jacky Law. The book examines how major pharmaceutical companies determine which health care problems are publicised and researched.^[1]

Outlining the history of the pharmaceutical industry, Law identifies what she says is the failure of a regulatory framework that assumes pharmaceutical companies always produce worthwhile products that society will want.^[1]

Law has written about healthcare for 25 years, seven of them as associate editor of Scrip Magazine, a monthly magazine for the drugs industry.^[2]

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^ ^a ^b Ike Iheanacho (18 March 2006). "Big Pharma: How the World's Biggest Drug Companies Control Illness". BMJ. 332 (7542): 672. doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7542.672. PMC 1403244.
^ "Big Pharma: How the World's Biggest Drug Companies Control Illness". National Health Federation. 2006. Archived from the original on 2012-05-02.

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Excerpt from the book

[bmj06-1] Ike Iheanacho (18 March 2006). "Big Pharma: How the World's Biggest Drug Companies Control Illness". BMJ. 332 (7542): 672. doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7542.672. PMC 1403244.

[nhf-2] "Big Pharma: How the World's Biggest Drug Companies Control Illness". National Health Federation. 2006. Archived from the original on 2012-05-02.

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Big Pharma (book)

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