Bibliograph

Bad pharma, how drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients, Ben Goldacre

Type

Label

Bad pharma, how drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients, Ben Goldacre

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bad pharma

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

814389713

Responsibility statement

Ben Goldacre

Sub title

how drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients

Summary

"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.... [This book] reveals a shockingly broken system and calls for something to be done. This is the pharmaceutical industry as it has never been seen before."--Front flap of jacket

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Missing data -- Where do new drugs come from? -- Bad regulators -- Bad trials -- Bigger, simpler trials -- Marketing -- Afterword: better data

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