Bad Pharma : : how Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
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Intro -- Missing data -- Where do new drugs come from? -- Bad regulators -- Bad trials -- Bigger, simpler trials -- Marketing -- Afterword: better data.
Goldacre puts the 600-billion-dollar global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess.
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Interesting Read submitted by cmaque on August 24, 2013, 12:38pm This is an interesting look in to what's wrong with the pharmaceutical industry today. It's a bit skewed at times, but fairly well supported by fact. Same author also wrote Bad Science, which is worth a read as well.
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New York : Faber and Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: xvii, 426 pages ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
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9780865478008
0865478007
SUBJECTS
Drugs -- Testing.
Drugs -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Clinical trials -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Drugs -- Quality control.