Bad pharma : how drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients / Ben Goldacre.
Argues that doctors are deliberately misinformed by profit-seeking pharmaceutical companies who withhold information about drug efficacy and side effects, explaining pharmaceutical data manipulation and its consequences.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780865478008
- Physical Description: xvii, 426 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First American edition
- Publisher: New York : Faber and Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Originally published: London : Fourth Estate, 2012.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-405) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Intro -- Missing data -- Where do new drugs come from? -- Bad regulators -- Bad trials -- Bigger, simpler trials -- Marketing -- Afterword: better data.
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| Jacksonville Main Library | 615.1072 GOL (Text) | 36015000703732 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Cleveland County Main Library | 615.107 GOL (Text) | 22281500036106 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Lee County Main Library | 615.107G (Text) | 33262003215941 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Louisburg - Main Branch | 615.1072/Goldacre (Text) | 72350000034652 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Paddison Memorial Branch | 615.107 G (Text) | 0112520700087 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Statesville Main Library | 615.10724 GOL (Text) | 33114017302514 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Wilkes County Public Library | 615.1072 GOL (Text) | 50501100649520 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
