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

Informationen zum Autor Ben Goldacre is a doctor and science writer who wrote the 'Bad Science' column in the Guardian from 2003 to 2011. He has made a number of documentaries for BBC Radio 4, and his first book Bad Science reached Number One in the nonfiction charts, has sold over 500,000 copies. . His second bestselling book, Bad Pharma , was published in 2013. Klappentext Paperback. Pub Date :2013-08-29 Pages: 448 Language: English 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.. bookDoctors 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.The result: patients are harmed in ... Zusammenfassung ‘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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ben Goldacre, Goldacre Ben
• Verlag: Fourth Estate
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 29.08.2013
• EAN: 9780007498086
• ISBN: 978-0-00-749808-6
• Seiten: 462
• Abmessung: 197 mm x 128 mm x 33 mm
• Serien: CAHIERS D'EDIFA; CAHIERS EDIFA; CAHIERS EDIFA; CAHIERS D'EDIFA
• Themen: Ratgeber > Gesundheit; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Einzelne Wirtschaftszweige, Branchen; HEALTH & FITNESS / General, MEDICAL / Pharmacology, MEDICAL / Research, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, Popular medicine & health, Pharmacology, Manufacturing industries, Popular medicine and health, Clinical Trials, Pharmaceutical industries