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Bad Pharma: How Medicine is Broken, and How We Can Fix It

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Description for Bad Pharma: How Medicine is Broken, and How We Can Fix It Paperback. Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess. ***Now updated with the latest government responses to the book*** Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: KNDP; MBGR1; MMG; VFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 168 x 36. Weight in Grams: 448.

‘Bad Science’ hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess.

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 ... Read more

The result: patients are harmed in huge numbers.

Ben Goldacre is Britain’s finest writer on the science behind medicine, and ‘Bad Pharma’ is the book that finally prompted Parliament to ask why all trial results aren’t made publicly available – this edition has been updated with the latest news from the select committee hearings. Let the witty and indefatigable Goldacre show you how medicine went wrong, and what you can do to mend it.

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Product Details

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007498086
SKU
V9780007498086
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-98

About Ben Goldacre
Ben Goldacre is a doctor, writer, broadcaster and academic who specialises in unpicking dodgy scientific claims from drug companies, newspapers, government reports, PR people and quacks. His first book, Bad Science, reached Number One in the non-fiction charts, sold over 400,000 copies in the UK alone, and has been translated into 25 languages. He is 38 and lives in London. ... Read more

Reviews for Bad Pharma: How Medicine is Broken, and How We Can Fix It
‘This is a book to make you enraged – properly, bone-shakingly furious – because it’s about how big business puts profits over patient welfare, allows people to die because they don’t want to disclose damning research evidence, and the tricks they play to make sure doctors do not have all the evidence when it comes to appraising whether a drug ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Bad Pharma: How Medicine is Broken, and How We Can Fix It


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