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Fiction · 1985 · PG-13

Mindbend

by Robin Cook

A medical student discovers drug companies are brainwashing doctors through sinister techniques

When his wife learns that she is pregnant, Adam Schonberg quits medical school to go to work for Arolen Pharmaceuticals and discovers the nightmarish business that they are involved in-a business that threatens his own wife!

For14+GenreFictionLength277 pagesRead time~7.5 hours

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Violence

Some

Confrontations with pharmaceutical agents; murder attempts

Language

Some

Moderate profanity

Sexual Content

Some

Brief sexual content

Substance Use

Some

Drug-induced personality changes; pharmaceutical company methods

Emotional Intensity

A lot

Mind control and personality alteration through conditioning; spousal transformation

What this book is about

A Robin Cook medical thriller (1985) in which a medical student's wife joins a new OB practice that seems perfect — until her personality begins to change. Investigating, the husband discovers a pharmaceutical company using conditioning techniques through luxury trips to indoctrinate doctors into prescribing their products regardless of patient welfare. An early pharmaceutical conspiracy thriller.

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Brainwashing/mind control

Sexual content

Pharmaceutical conspiracy

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