A note on sources: In his bestselling book The Great Crash of 1929, economist John Galbraith noted “everyone needs to know on occasion the credentials of a fact.” At the same time “there is a line between adequacy and pedantry.”
I started medical school in 1958, was a medical practitioner for forty years, and started researching this book when I retired in 2010. During the last ten years I browsed hundreds of articles and magazines. Most of my sources are available on the web. A number can only be found in the books listed below or in subscription-only websites.
To avoid plagiarism I tried to put quotation marks when I used an authors exact words. I did not specifically footnote the quotations or the data, but my sources are all listed in the bibliography on my website: www.savingobamacare.com
Most web references are listed by chapter and are in URL form. Click the link and go directly to the source of the information– or copy the URL, and paste it in your computer’s browser. Some of the particulars come from one of the books listed below or was gleaned from subscription only web sites like: UpToDate, the New England Journal of Medicine, the New York Times and the New Yorker. In addition to the main bibliography, sources are listed at the end of most of the web chapters. These sections are earlier, expanded, or newer versions of a segment in the book.
Selected Bibliography
I gained knowledge from the following books:
Angell, Marcia. The Truth About the Drug Companies. Random House, 2005.
Alvord, Lori. The Scalpel and the Silver Bear. Bantam, 1999.
Barnard, Christiaan & Curtis Bill Pepper. One Life. Macmillan Company, 1969.
Blumberg, Baruch. Hepatitis B. Princeton University Press, 2002.
Breecher, Charles & Sheila Spezio. Privatization & Public Hospitals. 20th CenturyFund Report, 1995.
Cohen, Jon. Shots in the Dark. Norton, 2011.
Covert, Norman. Cutting Edge. Self-published, 1997.
Doudna, Jennifer & Samuel Sternberg. A Crack in Creation. First Mariner Books,2018.
Eban, Katherine. Bottle of Lies. Harper Collins, 2019.
Ferrara, Napoleone. Angiogenesis. Taylor and Francis, 2007.
Fredman, Steven. Troubled Health Dollar. Virtual Bookworm, 2012.
Fredman, Steven & Robert Burger. Forbidden Cures. Stein and Day, 1976.
Gawande, Atul. Better. Metropolitan Books, 2007.
Gawande, Atul. Complications. Metropolitan Books, 2002.
Hawthorne, Fran. The Merck Juggernaut. John Wiley, 2003.
Hughes, Sally Smith. Genentech. University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Kocher, Theodor. Text-Book of Operative Surgery. Adam and Charles Black, 1895.
Lindorff, Dave. The Rise of the For-Profit Hospital Chains. Bantam Books, 1992.
Loeck, Renilde. Cold War Triangle. Leuven University Press, 2017.
Miller, Wayne. King of Hearts. Random House, 2000.
Mueller, C. Barber. Evarts A. Graham. BC Decker, 2002.
Mukherjee, Siddhartha. The Emperor of All Maladies. Scribner, 2010.
Offit, Paul. Vaccinated. Harper Collins, 2007.
Pearl, Robert. Mistreated. Public Affairs, 2017.
Potter, Wendell. Deadly Spin. Bloomsbury Press, 2010.
Rosenberg, Steven. The Transformed Cell. Putnam, 1992.
Rosenthal, Elisabeth. An American Sickness. Penguin Books, 2017.
Silverman, Milton, and Lee Phillip. Pills, Profits, and Politics. University of California Press, 1974.
Starzl, Thomas. The Puzzle People. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992.
Thomas, Lewis. Lives of a Cell. Bantam, 1974.
Vilcek, Jan. Love and Science. Seven Stories Press, 2016.
Wapner, Jessica. The Philadelphia Chromosome. The Experiment, 2013.
Ward, Thomas. Black Physicians in the Jim Crow South. University of Arkansas Press, 2003.
Werth, Barry. The Antidote. Simon and Schuster, 2014.
Werth, Barry. The Billion-Dollar Molecule. Simon and Schuster, 1994.
Additional major sources of information:
“Fire in the blood.” a documentary movie about HIV by Dylan Mohan Gray
“Hillary” Hulu documentary
“Obama’s Deal”—Frontline documentary on the passage of Obamacare
CSPAN broadcast of Feb. 26 2019 house of representative committee hearing on prescription drug pricing
Correspondence with RoseAnn DeMoro-leader of the California Nurses Association