Bad pharma : how drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients / Ben Goldacre.
By: Goldacre, Ben.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Faber and Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013Edition: First American edition.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-405) and index.Description: xvii, 426 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780865478008 (hbk. : alk. paper); 0865478007 (hbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Drugs -- Testing | Drugs -- Testing -- Moral and ethical aspects | Clinical trials -- Moral and ethical aspects | Pharmaceutical industry -- Moral and ethical aspects | Drugs -- Quality controlDDC classification: 615.1072/4Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-405) and index.
Intro -- Missing data -- Where do new drugs come from? -- Bad regulators -- Bad trials -- Bigger, simpler trials -- Marketing -- Afterword: better data.
Is medicine based on evidence and the results of fair tests? The author reveals how data manipulation in the drug industry works and it affects us.
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