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Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Best-selling Antidepressant on Trial Alison Bass. Algonquin, $24.95 (240p)ISBN 978-1-56512-553-7
This densely researched report adds to the growing literature on Big Pharma's efforts to sell blockbuster drugs and with its two crusading heroes seems ready for Hollywood. Expanding on her reporting for the Boston Globe, Bass focuses on psychiatrist Martin Teicher, who as early as 1988 noticed that the antidepressant Prozac seemed paradoxically to cause suicidal thoughts in his patients, and the nearly blind Rose Firestein, a lawyer in the New York State attorney general's office who was investigating the inappropriate …