Bad Pharma
How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
New York : Faber and Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Format: Book
Edition: First American edition.
Description: xvii, 426 pages ; 22 cm
Goldacre puts the 600-billion-dollar global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess.
Contents:
Missing data -- Where do new drugs come from? -- Bad regulators -- Bad trials -- Bigger, simpler trials -- Marketing -- Afterword: better data.
Subjects:
Drugs -- Testing.
Drugs -- Testing -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Clinical trials -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Drugs -- Quality control.
Drugs -- Testing.
Drugs -- Testing -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Clinical trials -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Drugs -- Quality control.
ISBN:
9780865478008 (alk. paper)
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HEALTH Treatment Gol | Ballentine Indoors | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/4/2024) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 367, 371-405) and index.