Side effects : a prosecutor, a whistleblower, and a bestselling antidepressant on trial / Alison Bass
- Author
- Bass, Alison
- Additional Titles
- Prosecutor, a whistleblower, and a bestselling depressant on trial
- Published
- Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2008.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Physical Description
- ix, 260 pages ; 24 cm
- Contents
- Martin Teicher and the wonder drugs, 1988-89 -- Rose Firestein v. New York City, 1989 -- Donna Howard's quest to help her adopted daughter, 1990 -- Empire strikes back, September 1991 -- Rose Firestein's big gamble : suing the pharmaceutical industry, June 2004 -- Brown connection, 1995 -- Donna Howard talks to the press and becomes a pariah, January 1996 -- Humiliation of Martin Teicher, October 1996 -- Eliot Spitzer's crusaders win round one against GlaxoSmithKline but get knocked off course in round two, July 2004 -- Tale of two psychiatrists named Martin, Spring 1998 -- Tonya Brooks becomes a nomad, and Rose Firestein fights to protect Florida's foster children, 2000-2001 -- Donna Howard discovers that in the nonprofit world of patient advocacy, money shouts, Fall 2002 -- Rose Firestein begins probing the Paxil puzzle, Summer 2003 -- Rose Firestein's epiphany, Winter 2004 -- How Rose Firestein found the smoking gun memo and converted the skeptics, Spring 2004 -- New York AG v. GlaxoSmithKline, June 2004 -- Wherein Rose Firestein goes to court and annoys a federal judge, July 2004 -- GlaxoSmithKline comes to the table, August 2004 -- Martin Teicher is vindicated, and Rose Firestein takes a bow, Fall 2004.
- Subject(s)
- Spitzer, Eliot—Trials, litigation, etc
- Spitzer, Eliot
- GlaxoSmithKline—Trials, litigation, etc
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Antidepressive Agents, Second-Generation—adverse effects
- Legislation, Drug
- Paroxetine—adverse effects
- Drug Industry—legislation & jurisprudence
- Paroxetine—Side effects
- Products liability—Drugs—United States
- Antidepressants—Side effects
- United States
- ISBN
- 9781565125537
1565125533 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-252) and index.
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