Bad pharma

how drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients

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Bad pharma

how drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients

First American paperback edition. Revised edition.
  • 4.8 (4 ratings) ·
  • 15 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read

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 all be able to understand precisely how data manipulation works and how research misconduct on a global scale affects us. This book reveals a shockingly broken system and calls for something to be done.--From publisher description.

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Bad pharma: how drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients
2014
in English - First American paperback edition. Revised edition.
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Bad pharma: how drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients
2013, Faber and Faber, Faber and Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - 1st American ed.
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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
2013, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
Feb 05, 2013, Signal
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Bad Pharma: How Medicine Is Broken, and How We Can Fix It
2012, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Bad Pharma: How Medicine is Broken, and How We Can Fix it
Feb 14, 2001, HarperCollins Publishers

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Missing data
Where do new drugs come from?
Bad regulators
Bad trials
Bigger, simpler trials
Marketing
Conclusion: better data
Afterword: what happened next.

Edition Notes

Originally published: Great Britain : Fourth Estate, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-435) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
615.1072
Library of Congress
RM301.27 .G65 2014, RM301.27.G65 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 456 pages
Number of pages
456

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27174210M
Internet Archive
badpharmahowdrug0000gold_z4a7
ISBN 10
0865478066
ISBN 13
9780865478060
OCLC/WorldCat
845516956

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