A Prescription for Change: The Looming Crisis in Drug Development

Author/Contributor(s):	Kinch, Michael
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	03/01/2018
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"The introduction of new medicines has dramatically improved the quantity and quality of individual and public health while contributing trillions of dollars to the global economy. In spite of these past successes--and indeed because of them--our ability to deliver new medicines may be quickly coming to an end. Moving from the twentieth century to the present, this book reveals how changing business strategies combined with scientific hubris have altered the way new medicines are discovered, with dire implications for both health and the economy"--