Bad pharma

how drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients

426 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2013 by Faber and Faber.

ISBN:
978-0-86547-800-8
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OCLC Number:
814389713

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We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair tests. In reality, those tests are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors are familiar with the research literature about a drug, when in reality much of the research is hidden from them by drug companies. We like to imagine that doctors are impartially educated, when in reality much of their education is funded by the pharmaceutical industry. We like to imagine that regulators let only effective drugs onto the market, when in reality they approve useless drugs, with data on side effects casually withheld from doctors and patients. All these problems have been shielded from public scrutiny because they're too complex to capture in a sound bite. But Ben Goldacre shows that the true scale of this murderous disaster fully reveals itself only when the details are untangled. He believes we should …

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Subjects

  • Pharmaceutical industry
  • Moral and ethical aspects
  • Quality control
  • Clinical trials
  • Drugs
  • Testing