by Arthur Hailey · Editorial Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432084034
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«Medicina peligrosa» is the medical suspense novel by Arthur Hailey, published by Editorial Planeta in paperback (349 pages, in Spanish).
An ambitious woman tries to balance her professional career with her love life while rising in a large pharmaceutical company. Her arrival at the presidency of the company gradually reveals the inner workings of the industry: spectacular scientific advances, tragic errors such as thalidomide, the tension between ethics and profits, political manipulation, and the truth behind seemingly harmless remedies.
This Spanish edition, published in 1984, belongs to Planeta's Serie Oro Collection and features a translation by Helena Valentí. The work originally appeared in English as Strong Medicine.
A work for readers of medical thrillers and denunciatory fiction about the inner workings of the pharmaceutical industry.
Arthur Frederick Hailey, AE was a British-Canadian novelist whose plot-driven storylines were set against the backdrops of various industries. His books, which include such best sellers as Hotel (1965), Airport (1968), Wheels (1971), The Moneychangers (1975), and Overload (1979), have sold 170 million copies in 38 languages.
