Angell, Marcia. The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It. New York: Random House, 2004. This is an excellent, readable, critique of Big Pharma by Angell, a 20 year veteran of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Angell, Marcia . "The Truth About the Drug Companies." The New York Review of Books" July 15, 2004. A synopsis of the above book in article form.
Bakhai, Ameet, and Duolao Wang. Clinical Trials -- A Practical Guide to Design, Analysis, and Reporting. 1 ed. London: Remedica Publishing, 2006. Dense and more information than is needed for this unit.
Brody, Howard. Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profesion, and the Pharmaceutical Industry. 1 ed. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007. This book gives an intricate critique of the interplay between medical profession and Pharma. More than is necessary for this unit, but contains a lot of excellent examples.
Caplow, Theodore, Louis Hicks, and Ben J. Wattenberg. The First Measured Century: An Illustrated Guide to Trends in America 1900-2000. Washington D.C.: American Enterprise Institute Press, 2000. PBS documentary with accompanying video and website has great resources for classroom use.
Chance, Beth L., J. Barr Von Oehsen, and Allan J. Rossman. Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data and the Graphing Calculator (Key Curriculum Press). 3 ed. New York, NY: Wiley, 2008. This is a classroom statistics text with many medical examples.
Furberg, Bengt. All that glitters is not gold: What clinicians need to know about clinical trials. second edition ed. New York, NY: Dr. Potata, 2007. This is designed for medical professionals to examine and analyze clinical research. It is a wonderful, readable resource about the mechanics of clinical trials.
Gladwell, Malcolm. "The Treatment." The New Yorker, May 17, 2010. This is an excellent article on bringing a drug to market from the entrepreneur's point of view.
Gnanadesikan, Mrudulla, Richard L. Scheaffer, Ann Watkins, and Jeffrey Witmer. Activity-based Statistics. 2nd ed. Emeryville, CA: Key College, 2004. This textbook is a staple for the high school statistics classroom.
Hawthorne, Fran. Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat. New York, NY: Wiley, 2005. This is a readable and comprehensive guide to the history of the Food and Drug Administration and the development of Big Pharma.
Hunter, Patti Wiger. "Foundations of Statistics in American Textbooks: Probability and Pedagogy in Historical Context." From Calculus to Computers/MAA Notes 68 (2005): 165-180. This journal has interesting articles on math pedagogy.
Kelsey, Frances. "Thalidomide." The Current. CBC, CBC.CA, April 27, 2010. The famous Frances Kelsey, now a nonagenarian, recounts her refusal to approve Thalidomide for sale in the United States in this CBC interview. This was produced in Canada, so it has the added insight of a country who did approve Thalidomide.
The Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation. " Prescription Drug Trends Fact Sheet-May 2010 Update." Kaiser Family Foundation. http://www.kff.org KFF maintains excellent fact sheets on the drug industry.
Mason, Robert L.. "Home | American Statistical Association." Home | American Statistical Association. http://www.amstat.org (accessed April 26, 2010). Why? Just for geeks.
Moore, David S. "New Pedagogy and New Content: The Case of Statistics." International Statistical Review 65, no. 2 (1997): 123-137. http://www.jstor.org/satble/1403333 (accessed April 24, 2010). This article was quoted and responded to by several authors. It gives a good argument for an application-driven statistics classroom, and the author lives up to his own challenge with the next book.
Moore, David S., Daren S. Starnes, and Dan Yates. Statistics Through Applications. Second Edition ed. New York: W. H. Freeman, 2009. Here is an application-driven statistics textbook, designed for the non-AP level classroom.
Senn, Stephen. Statistical Issues in Drug Development (Statistics in Practice). 2 ed. New York: Wiley-Interscience, 2008. Most of this book is overkill for this unit. It does have a nice math history overview.
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (2 Vol. Set; Thumb Indexed Edition). 1933. Reprint, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1947 Again, for geeks.
"U S Food and Drug Administration Home Page." U S Food and Drug Administration Home Page. http://www.FDA.gov (accessed April 3, 2010). The FDA provides wonderful public resources, including lots of history.
