The branding of pharmaceuticals exerts a potent influence on the way patients think and feel about their medication and their illness
“A close look at direct-to-consumer advertising suggests the extent of pharmaceutical companies’ concern with ‘the social – that is, precisely not the chemical – effects of these drugs.'”
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