Bad pharma - Couverture souple

Ben Goldacre

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 000749808X ISBN 13 : 9780007498086

Editeur : 4th, 2013

Synopsis

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*** 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. 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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From the reviews of Bad Science:

From an expert with a mail-order PhD to debunking the myths of homeopathy, Ben Goldacre talks the reader through some notable cases and shows how you don t need a science degree to spot bad science yourself Independent (Book of the Year)

His book aims to teach us better, in the hope that one day we write less nonsense Daily Telegraph (Book of the Year)

For sheer savagery, the illusion-destroying, joyous attack on the self-regarding, know-nothing orthodoxies of the modern middle classes, Bad Science cannot be beaten. You ll laugh your head off, then throw all those expensive health foods in the bin Trevor Phillips, Observer (Book of the Year)

Unmissable...laying about himself in a froth of entirely justified indignation, Goldacre slams the mountebanks and bullsh*tters who misuse science. Few escape: drug companies, self-styled nutritionists, deluded researchers and journalists all get thoroughly duffed up. It is enormously enjoyable' --The Times (Book of the Year)

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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 ...

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: 4th
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 000749808X
• ISBN 13: 9780007498086
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 462