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Author Lenzer, Jeanne, author.

Title The danger within us : America's untested, unregulated medical device industry and one man's battle to survive it / Jeanne Lenzer.

Publication Info. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
©2017

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  338.47 LENZER    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  338.4768 LEN    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  338.4768 LEN    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  338.4 LENZER    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Nonfiction  338.4768 LEN    Missing
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  362 LEN    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  338.4768 LENZER    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  338.47681 LEN    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  338.4768 LENZER    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  362.1 LE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-316) and index.
Contents Strange seizures -- Age of miracles -- Deadly devices -- The man from Cyberonics -- Adverse events -- No safety net -- Regulators in chains -- The power of illusions -- The quest for truth -- When money talks -- Breakdown -- What is to be done?
Summary A medical investigative journalist presents an unsettling expose of the under-regulated medical device industry, revealing the corruption, greed, and deceit that have combined to render medical interventions a leading cause of death in America.
"Tens of millions of Americans have medical devices inside them, from pacemakers and artificial hips to cardiac stents and breast implants. But what do we really know about the companies that manufacture and sell these products?"--Page 2 of cover.
Subject Medical instruments and apparatus industry -- United States.
Medical instruments and apparatus industry -- Corrupt practices -- United States.
Medical instruments and apparatus -- United States.
ISBN 9780316343763
0316343765
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