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Comfortably Numb.(Book review)
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September 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2008 American Association for Justice. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Comfortably Numb
Charles Barber
Pantheon Books
www.randomhouse.com
282 pp., $26
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In Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation, Charles Barber recognizes what lawyers who handle pharmaceutical products liability litigation have known for years: Drug companies create a marketplace using direct television advertising and attractive salespeople to push samples on physicians, who in turn prescribe these heavily marketed drugs to their patients.
Barber, a Yale University School of Medicine psychiatry lecturer, documents in great detail how the pharmaceutical industry works and how it relies on flimsy science. He ...
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