pharmaceuticals

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  5/17/2022
  

  What if Mental Illness Isn't All In Your Head?

  by Marco Ramos

  A historian of mental health reviews two new books and concludes that pharmaceutical and neurological approaches to mental health have failed and it's time to turn the lens onto society.

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• 10/10/2021
  

  The Horseshoe Crab is the Unsung, and Threatened, Hero of the Pandemic

  by William Sargent

  With due regard to Anthony Fauci, horseshoe crabs are truly the unsung heroes of the pandemic.

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• SOURCE: Contingent
  4/17/2021
  

  How To Make An Oligopoly

  by Brittany McWilliams

  A document from the Eli Lilly corporate archives shows how the pharmaceutical giant strategized to control the global market in insulin. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/2/2020
  

  Gerald Ford Rushed Out a Vaccine. It Was a Fiasco

  by Rick Perlstein

  If steady, mature Gerald Ford succumbed to haste when his presidency was on the line, imagine what Donald Trump will do.

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• 4/26/2020
  

  History Should Have Told Us not to Believe the Quinine Drug Hype

  by Andrew Goss

  Big pharmaceutical companies have long over-promised the efficacy of their antimalarial drugs. It seems to be happening again.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/23/2020
  

  The Unseen Survivors of Thalidomide Want to Be Heard

  Historians say the lesson of thalidomide is one that society is still learning the hard way.