Bad pharma : how medicine is broken and how we can fix it / Ben Goldacre
2013, Revised edition. London : Fourth Estate. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #334594
ISBN: 9780007498086
Physical description: xviii, 462 pages: illustrations; 20 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: 1. Missing Data -- 2. Where Do New Drugs Come From? -- 3. Bad Regulators -- 4. Bad Trials -- 5. Bigger, Simpler Trials -- 6. Marketing -- Conclusion: Better Data -- Afterword: What Happened Next. Subjects: Drugs Testing. Drugs Testing Moral and ethical aspects. Clinical trials Moral and ethical aspects. Pharmaceutical industry Moral and ethical aspects. Drugs Quality control. Genre: Bibliography. Illustrated. Summary: Doctors and patients need good scientific evidence to make informed decisions. But instead, companies run bad trials on their own drugs, which distort and exaggerate the benefits by design. When these trials produce unflattering results, the data is simply buried. All of this is perfectly legal. In fact, even government regulators withhold vitally important data from the people who need it most. Doctors and patient groups have stood by too, and failed to protect us. Instead, they take money and favours, in a world so fractured that medics and nurses are now educated by the drugs industry. Patients are harmed in huge numbers. Ben Goldacre is Britain's finest writer on the science behind medicine, and BAD PHARMA is a clear and witty attack, showing exactly how the science has been distorted, how our systems have been broken, and how easy it would be to fix them.
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