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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Consumer Culture

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Numeropharma: America's Powerful Legal Drug Culture and the Math Behind It

Kathleen Z. Rooney

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¹ Kaiser Family Foundation, "Prescription drug trends September 2008", http://www.kff.org/rxdrugs/3057.cfm (accessed June 7, 2010).
² Based on quote from Marcia Angell, The Truth About the Drug Companies ,3, updated with Fortune 500 annual ranking of America's largest corporations,
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2006/performers/industries/return_on_revenues/index.html (accessed on May 20, 2010)
³ U.S. Pharmacopeia, http://www.usp.org/aboutUSP (accessed on May 20, 2010)
⁴ FDA history part 1 www.fda.gov
⁵ Fran Hawthorne, Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat, 40.
⁶ Frances Kelsey, "Thalidomide." The Current. CBC, CBC.CA, April 27, 2010.
⁷ Fran Hawthorne, Inside the FDA , 44.
⁸ Fran Hawthorne, Inside the FDA , 46.
⁹ http://www.fda.gov/regulatoryinformation/guidances/ucm122049.htm
¹⁰ Bengt Furberg, All that glitters is not gold, 13.
¹¹ Bengt Furberg, All that glitters is not gold , 51.
¹² Marcia Angell, The Truth About the Drug Companies , 9.
¹³ Marcia Angell, The Truth About the Drug Companies , 1.
¹⁴ Marcia Angell, The Truth About the Drug Companies , 75.
¹⁵ Fran Hawthorne, Inside the FDA , 274.
¹⁶ The first 160 years American Statistical Association http://www.amstat.org
(accessed April 26, 2010) and Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/research/publication/handbook.shtml (accessed June 26, 2010)
¹⁷ Stephen Senn, Statistical Issues in Drug Development (Statistics in Practice) chapter 2
¹⁸ The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (2 Vol. Set; Thumb Indexed Edition). 1933. Reprint. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1947. Print, 2007.
¹⁹ For more on history of statistics see:
Stephen Senn, Statistical Issues in Drug Development (Statistics in Practice). Chapter 2
²⁰ Patti Wiger Hunter, "Foundations of Statistics in American Textbooks: Probability and Pedagogy in Historical Context." From Calculus to Computers/MAA Notes 68
²¹ David S. Moore, "New Pedagogy and New Content: The Case of Statistics." International Statistical Review 65, no. 2 (1997), 128.
²² apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/.../ap06_stat_syllabus2.pdf (accessed July 3, 2010)
²³ http://www.pbs.org/fmc/lessons/lesson4.htm The first Measured Century.
²⁴ Mrudulla Gnanadesikan, Richard L. Scheaffer, Ann Watkins, and Jeffrey Witmer, Activity Based Statistics 82.
²⁵ David S. Moore, Daren S. Starnes, and Dan Yates, 260-261.
²⁶ Malcolm Gladwell "The Treatment".

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