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Thomas Hager 出版社: Abrams Press 副标题: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine 出版年: 2019-3-5 页数: 304 定价: USD 26.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9781419734403
The best way to get a long-lasting blockbuster is to make sure that it doesn't cure anything. Neither of the two big sellers from Pfizer just mentioned cures the underlying condition. Both erectile dysfunction and joint disease are painful in different ways, but neither is life threatening. Viagra and Celebrex treat symptoms, not diseases. Quality of life drugs that treat symptoms can be prescribed endlessly. If a patient stops taking them, the symptoms return, so they make money endlessly. Given the high costs of drug development, it's easy to understand why drug makers want that kind of payoff. The need for profit excuse the kinds of drugs that are developed. It explains why drug makers are putting very little effort into finding desperately needed new antibiotics, and a lot of money int... (查看原文)
The story of a speices that makes and takes pills. Henri Laborit's effort to solve sugery shock led to Chlorpromazine and a new era post the interpretation of dreams. Rockefeller fundation's vision fo...The story of a speices that makes and takes pills. Henri Laborit's effort to solve sugery shock led to Chlorpromazine and a new era post the interpretation of dreams. Rockefeller fundation's vision for a new world for business led to the study of hormones and the burst of the number of female professionals.
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The story of a speices that makes and takes pills. Henri Laborit's effort to solve sugery shock led to Chlorpromazine and a new era post the interpretation of dreams. Rockefeller fundation's vision fo...The story of a speices that makes and takes pills. Henri Laborit's effort to solve sugery shock led to Chlorpromazine and a new era post the interpretation of dreams. Rockefeller fundation's vision for a new world for business led to the study of hormones and the burst of the number of female professionals.
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The best way to get a long-lasting blockbuster is to make sure that it doesn't cure anything. Neither of the two big sellers from Pfizer just mentioned cures the underlying condition. Both erectile dysfunction and joint disease are painful in different ways, but neither is life threatening. Viagra and Celebrex treat symptoms, not diseases. Quality of life drugs that treat symptoms can be prescr...
2020-06-23 19:10
The best way to get a long-lasting blockbuster is to make sure that it doesn't cure anything. Neither of the two big sellers from Pfizer just mentioned cures the underlying condition. Both erectile dysfunction and joint disease are painful in different ways, but neither is life threatening. Viagra and Celebrex treat symptoms, not diseases. Quality of life drugs that treat symptoms can be prescribed endlessly. If a patient stops taking them, the symptoms return, so they make money endlessly. Given the high costs of drug development, it's easy to understand why drug makers want that kind of payoff. The need for profit excuse the kinds of drugs that are developed. It explains why drug makers are putting very little effort into finding desperately needed new antibiotics, and a lot of money into finding drugs that can treat the symptoms of aging. It's not that big pharma isn't looking for drugs that will save the lives of patients. They are, especially in cancer treatment. But they need blockbuster quality of life drugs like Viagra to fund the process, and, after all, saving lives isn't everything. More than any pill ever to be dispensed, Viagra has played the yearnings of American culture: eternal youth, sexual prowess, not to mention the longing for an easy fix, one essayist opined. It is the perfect drug for our time.
- Sex, Drugs and More Drugs
Drugs moved us from fearing the diseases of childhood to suffering the diseases of the old. That's attributed medicine in general, and to drugs in particular. These are technological tools capable of changing our culture, but when you think about them, drugs are even stranger than that. Today's Pharmaceuticals are high tech developed in cutting edge laboratories, after investments of tens of millions of dollars. But a kind of high tech so intimate, so personal, that they have to become part of you to do their work. You have to snort them, drink and ingest them, inject them, rub them into your skin, make them part of your body. They dissolve inside you, and race through your blood from muscle to heart, liver to brain. Only when they're absorbed, when they have melted into you, and melted with you, does their power unfold. Then they can attach and trigger, soothe and calm, destroy and protect, alter your consciousness, restore your health. They can Jack you up, or chill you out. They can addict you, and they can save your life.
- 50,000 Pills
The best way to get a long-lasting blockbuster is to make sure that it doesn't cure anything. Neither of the two big sellers from Pfizer just mentioned cures the underlying condition. Both erectile dysfunction and joint disease are painful in different ways, but neither is life threatening. Viagra and Celebrex treat symptoms, not diseases. Quality of life drugs that treat symptoms can be prescr...
2020-06-23 19:10
The best way to get a long-lasting blockbuster is to make sure that it doesn't cure anything. Neither of the two big sellers from Pfizer just mentioned cures the underlying condition. Both erectile dysfunction and joint disease are painful in different ways, but neither is life threatening. Viagra and Celebrex treat symptoms, not diseases. Quality of life drugs that treat symptoms can be prescribed endlessly. If a patient stops taking them, the symptoms return, so they make money endlessly. Given the high costs of drug development, it's easy to understand why drug makers want that kind of payoff. The need for profit excuse the kinds of drugs that are developed. It explains why drug makers are putting very little effort into finding desperately needed new antibiotics, and a lot of money into finding drugs that can treat the symptoms of aging. It's not that big pharma isn't looking for drugs that will save the lives of patients. They are, especially in cancer treatment. But they need blockbuster quality of life drugs like Viagra to fund the process, and, after all, saving lives isn't everything. More than any pill ever to be dispensed, Viagra has played the yearnings of American culture: eternal youth, sexual prowess, not to mention the longing for an easy fix, one essayist opined. It is the perfect drug for our time.
- Sex, Drugs and More Drugs
Drugs moved us from fearing the diseases of childhood to suffering the diseases of the old. That's attributed medicine in general, and to drugs in particular. These are technological tools capable of changing our culture, but when you think about them, drugs are even stranger than that. Today's Pharmaceuticals are high tech developed in cutting edge laboratories, after investments of tens of millions of dollars. But a kind of high tech so intimate, so personal, that they have to become part of you to do their work. You have to snort them, drink and ingest them, inject them, rub them into your skin, make them part of your body. They dissolve inside you, and race through your blood from muscle to heart, liver to brain. Only when they're absorbed, when they have melted into you, and melted with you, does their power unfold. Then they can attach and trigger, soothe and calm, destroy and protect, alter your consciousness, restore your health. They can Jack you up, or chill you out. They can addict you, and they can save your life.
- 50,000 Pills
The best way to get a long-lasting blockbuster is to make sure that it doesn't cure anything. Neither of the two big sellers from Pfizer just mentioned cures the underlying condition. Both erectile dysfunction and joint disease are painful in different ways, but neither is life threatening. Viagra and Celebrex treat symptoms, not diseases. Quality of life drugs that treat symptoms can be prescr...
2020-06-23 19:10
The best way to get a long-lasting blockbuster is to make sure that it doesn't cure anything. Neither of the two big sellers from Pfizer just mentioned cures the underlying condition. Both erectile dysfunction and joint disease are painful in different ways, but neither is life threatening. Viagra and Celebrex treat symptoms, not diseases. Quality of life drugs that treat symptoms can be prescribed endlessly. If a patient stops taking them, the symptoms return, so they make money endlessly. Given the high costs of drug development, it's easy to understand why drug makers want that kind of payoff. The need for profit excuse the kinds of drugs that are developed. It explains why drug makers are putting very little effort into finding desperately needed new antibiotics, and a lot of money into finding drugs that can treat the symptoms of aging. It's not that big pharma isn't looking for drugs that will save the lives of patients. They are, especially in cancer treatment. But they need blockbuster quality of life drugs like Viagra to fund the process, and, after all, saving lives isn't everything. More than any pill ever to be dispensed, Viagra has played the yearnings of American culture: eternal youth, sexual prowess, not to mention the longing for an easy fix, one essayist opined. It is the perfect drug for our time.
- Sex, Drugs and More Drugs
Drugs moved us from fearing the diseases of childhood to suffering the diseases of the old. That's attributed medicine in general, and to drugs in particular. These are technological tools capable of changing our culture, but when you think about them, drugs are even stranger than that. Today's Pharmaceuticals are high tech developed in cutting edge laboratories, after investments of tens of millions of dollars. But a kind of high tech so intimate, so personal, that they have to become part of you to do their work. You have to snort them, drink and ingest them, inject them, rub them into your skin, make them part of your body. They dissolve inside you, and race through your blood from muscle to heart, liver to brain. Only when they're absorbed, when they have melted into you, and melted with you, does their power unfold. Then they can attach and trigger, soothe and calm, destroy and protect, alter your consciousness, restore your health. They can Jack you up, or chill you out. They can addict you, and they can save your life.
- 50,000 Pills
The best way to get a long-lasting blockbuster is to make sure that it doesn't cure anything. Neither of the two big sellers from Pfizer just mentioned cures the underlying condition. Both erectile dysfunction and joint disease are painful in different ways, but neither is life threatening. Viagra and Celebrex treat symptoms, not diseases. Quality of life drugs that treat symptoms can be prescr...
1 有用 Tin 2020-04-20
特别好，知识性娱乐性兼备，看了想让人再认真读一遍，并且去了解背后更多的历史。非常出色的科普书籍。
0 有用 七爷喊我去铲屎 2020-10-06
对于药品-毒品的几章大概讲到了美国社会当今的毒品问题，简直是大制药公司黑历史。
0 有用 yu 2019-12-31
casual reading of history and science. All go to big pharma,
0 有用 北雪_TIG 2020-08-22
The story of a speices that makes and takes pills. Henri Laborit's effort to solve sugery shock led to Chlorpromazine and a new era post the interpretation of dreams. Rockefeller fundation's vision fo... The story of a speices that makes and takes pills. Henri Laborit's effort to solve sugery shock led to Chlorpromazine and a new era post the interpretation of dreams. Rockefeller fundation's vision for a new world for business led to the study of hormones and the burst of the number of female professionals. (展开)
0 有用 曾可妮塑达人 2020-03-06
种草了好多，会拍个开箱试吃vlog（不好意思，乱讲的）
0 有用 AlexanderG 2020-11-25
比较浅显易读的药物发展史读物，个人比较喜欢避孕药和疫苗的发展史，比较吗啡类药物经常在各类读物里能看到。 话说这次新冠德国疫苗的发明者也是土耳其裔，真的是Ottoman帝国祖传技能了 :P
0 有用 七爷喊我去铲屎 2020-10-06
对于药品-毒品的几章大概讲到了美国社会当今的毒品问题，简直是大制药公司黑历史。
0 有用 北雪_TIG 2020-08-22
The story of a speices that makes and takes pills. Henri Laborit's effort to solve sugery shock led to Chlorpromazine and a new era post the interpretation of dreams. Rockefeller fundation's vision fo... The story of a speices that makes and takes pills. Henri Laborit's effort to solve sugery shock led to Chlorpromazine and a new era post the interpretation of dreams. Rockefeller fundation's vision for a new world for business led to the study of hormones and the burst of the number of female professionals. (展开)
0 有用 Viola 2020-05-20
三星半吧，感觉是作者素材研究的边角料汇集，其中还有他自己曾经出过书的素材拿来回炉。关于鸦片、吗啡、及吗啡衍射物类的故事挺有意思。
1 有用 Tin 2020-04-20
特别好，知识性娱乐性兼备，看了想让人再认真读一遍，并且去了解背后更多的历史。非常出色的科普书籍。