Doctoring medicine: Reading between the lines of drug advertisements [Book Review]

Journal of Medical Humanities 12 (2):73-83 (1991)
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With the aid of techniques of art and literary criticism, I investigate the ideological function of drug advertisements. I propose that the deleterious effects of advertising practices on medical care extend well beyond the usual level of critical awareness of physicians

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