Research Catalog

Title

Side effects : a prosecutor, a whistleblower, and a bestselling antidepressant on trial / Alison Bass.

Author

Bass, Alison

Publication

Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2008.

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Details

Description

ix, 260 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Alison Bass turns her investigative skills to a landmark case that exposed increased suicide rates among adolescents taking popular antidepressants such as Paxil, Prozac, and Zoloft." "In Side Effects we meet a courageous Ivy League university employee who risked her job to expose suspicious practices at her lab, a feisty assistant attorney general who spearheaded an unprecedented lawsuit against a pharmaceutical giant, plus the medical researchers who were being paid by the drug companies whose products they were testing. And Bass introduces us to the vulnerable children and adults placed at risk because of greed, corruption, and negligence."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Prosecutor, a whistleblower, and a bestselling depressant on trial

Subject

• Spitzer, Eliot
• Spitzer, Eliot > Trials, litigation, etc
• Spitzer, Eliot
• GlaxoSmithKline
• GlaxoSmithKline > Trials, litigation, etc
• GlaxoSmithKline
• Legislation, Drug
• Antidepressive Agents, Second-Generation > adverse effects
• Paroxetine > adverse effects
• Drug Industry > legislation & jurisprudence
• Products liability > Drugs > United States
• Antidepressants > Side effects
• Paroxetine > Side effects
• Drug Industry > legislation & jurisprudence > United States
• Antidepressive Agents, Second-Generation > adverse effects > United States
• Legislation, Drug > United States
• Paroxetine > adverse effects > United States
• United States

Genre/Form

• Trial and arbitral proceedings
• Trials, litigation, etc.
• Comptes rendus de procès et d'arbitrage.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-252) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781565125537
• 1565125533

LCCN

^^2008007345

OCLC

• 212627118
• SCSB-10213030

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library