Doctors, drugs and health care

A biography of cancer, by a physician and oncologist.

End-of-life and hospice care, and why medicine should aim at well-being.

America's opioid crisis from OxyContin's 1996 launch through Central Appalachia.

Three generations of the Sackler family and how Purdue Pharma sold OxyContin.

The first book to expose OxyContin marketing; reissued 2018.

How drug companies distort medical evidence, starting with unpublished trials.

America's opiate epidemic, seen from the demand side of the OxyContin market.

How US healthcare became so costly and broken, and what patients can do.

Fraud in data and manufacturing at offshore generic-drug plants.

The US drug industry from patent medicines to the opioid epidemic and the Sacklers.

Johnson & Johnson's record on talc, opioids and Tylenol, reexamined.

How Rockefeller philanthropy reshaped American medicine.

Vertex from the inside; the classic account of drug discovery economics.

How drug companies turned from discovering drugs to marketing them.

How drug makers became marketing machines, from Risperdal to off-label promotion.

Background on how the obesity market got as large as it is.

How drug makers, regulators and distributors let the US opioid epidemic grow.

How a West Virginia town of 382 people got 12 million opioid pills in three years.

The drug distributors behind the opioid epidemic and the lawsuits against them.

The GLP-1 drugs: their benefits, their risks and their effects on society.

Women's roles and choices, with detailed treatment of women's health and hygiene.

Creating Value-Based Competition on Results

How trivial-seeming questions lead to deeper insight into how science works.

How checklists stop experts in complex fields failing to apply what they know.

A neurosurgeon diagnosed with lung cancer at 36 asks what makes life worth living.

The scientists racing to make the immune system fight cancer: immunotherapy's story.

Princeton University Press. Listed on Lo's MIT books page.

The politics, financing and delivery of Singapore's healthcare over five decades.