The Moral Corporation: Merck Experiences

by Louis Galambos, P. Roy Vagelos, Louis P. Galambos

Book Overview

Merck and the pharmaceutical industry are headline news today. Controversies over public safety, prices, and the ability of the industry to develop the new drugs and vaccines that society needs have been covered worldwide. Roy Vagelos, who was head of research and then CEO at Merck from the mid-1970s through the early 1990s, addresses these issues here. Success with targeted research started Merck on a path that would lead to a series of block-buster...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521864550
• ISBN13: 9780521864558
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.8"