No more tears : the dark secrets of Johnson and Johnson / Gardiner Harris.
| Author/creator | Harris, Gardiner |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | New York : Random House Publishing Group, [2025]. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | 1 online resource (464 p.) |
| Supplemental Content | EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: A quintessentially American company -- Part I: Consumer products. Section I: Trust from birth. An emotional bond ; Three brothers go to New Brunswick, 1860-1968 -- Section II: Johnson's baby powder. Mineral twins ; The FDA conducts a survey ; Birth of the modern FDA ; The power of pressure ; A meeting at a Harvard hospital ; Secrecy is a top priority ; A sacred cow -- Section III: Tylenol. An infamous crime, the birth of a myth ; Problems with the narrative ; Never an adversarial relationship ; The cost of doing business -- Part II: Prescription drugs. A valley of death in drug discovery -- Section IV: Procrit. The first great biotech franchise is born ; How giving cash to doctors became good business ; J & J's biggest-selling drug ; A brave researcher breaks the silence ; Miracle-Gro for cancer -- Section V: Risperdal. A path of a normal life ; A treatment for everything and everyone ; Serious red flags ; A big target ; Ice cream and popcorn parties ; A turning point ; One of the most alarming warnings ; They knew they were a good company -- Section VI: Duragesic. An epidemic foretold ; Opium blossoms in Tasmania ; Less prone to abuse ; Evolve the value discussion -- Section VII: Ortho Evra birth control patch. The pill and the patch -- Part III: Medical devices. The FDA goes looking for a savior -- Section VIII: Pinnacle metal-on-metal hip implant. Two terrible dilemmas ; God, Nazis, and hip implants ; Never stop moving -- Section IX: Prolift vaginal mesh. A cure for sag ; "Usually minor and well manageable" -- Part VI: Vaccination. Section X: COVID. A rare shot a redemption -- Acknowledments -- Notes -- Index. |
| Abstract | "An explosive, deeply reported expoš of Johnson & Johnson, one of America's oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies--from an award-winning investigative journalist"A page-turning drama that raises life-or-death questions about the world's largest healthcare conglomerate."--Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of King: A LifeOne day in 2004, Gardiner Harris, a pharmaceutical reporter for The New York Times, was early for a flight and sat down at an airport bar. He struck up a conversation with the woman on the barstool next to him, who happened to be a drug sales rep for Johnson & Johnson. Her horrific story about unethical sales practices and the devastating impact they'd had on her family fundamentally changed the nature of how Harris would cover the company--and the entire pharmaceutical industry--for the Times. His subsequent investigations and ongoing research since that very first conversation led to this book--a blistering expoš of a trusted American institution and the largest healthcare conglomerate in the world.Harris takes us light-years away from the company's image as the child-friendly "baby company" as he uncovers reams of evidence showing decades of deceitful and dangerous corporate practices that have threatened the lives of millions. He covers multiple disasters: lies and cover-ups regarding the link of Johnson's Baby Powder to cancer, the surprising dangers of Tylenol, a criminal campaign to sell antipsychotics that have cost countless lives, a popular drug used to support cancer patients that actually increases the risk that cancer tumors will grow, and deceptive marketing that accelerated opioid addictions through their product Duragesic (fentanyl) that rival even those of the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma.Filled with shocking and infuriating but utterly necessary revelations, No More Tears is a landmark work of investigative journalism that lays bare the deeply rooted corruption behind the image of babies bathing with a smile." - provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Online resources; title from digital title page (viewed on April 16, 2025). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Harris, Gardiner No More Tears New York : Random House Publishing Group,c2025 9780593229866 |
| Issued in other form | Original 9780593229866 059322986X |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780593229880 |
| ISBN | 0593229886 |
| Stock number | A7FD86BD-09BA-4EDE-B138-FD537E9063B1 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |