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Bad pharma : how drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients / Ben Goldacre.

Goldacre, Ben. (Author).

Summary:

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.

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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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Subject:
Drugs > Testing.
Drugs > Testing > Moral and ethical aspects.
Clinical trials > Moral and ethical aspects.
Pharmaceutical industry > Moral and ethical aspects.
Drugs > Quality control.
Medication.

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