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Genre/Form: | Book |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Goldacre, Ben. Bad pharma (OCoLC)805010249 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ben Goldacre |
ISBN: | 9780007363643 0007363648 |
OCLC Number: | 1193355771 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 430 pages : illustrations) |
Contents: | Missing data -- Where do new drugs come from? -- Bad regulators -- Bad trials -- Bigger, simpler trials -- Marketing. |
Responsibility: | Ben Goldacre. |
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`Goldacre has managed to achieve something marvellous here ... He has humanised the numbers so they become relevant. More than that, this is a book to make you enraged - properly, bone-shakingly furious - because it's about how big business puts profits over patient welfare, allows people to die because they don't want to disclose damning research evidence, and the tricks they play to make sure doctors do not have all the evidence when it comes to appraising whether a drug really works or not. A work of brilliance.' Max Pemberton, Daily Telegraph `This is a brilliant piece of work' Evening Standard, William Leith `This is an important book. Ben Goldacre is angry, and by the time you put `Bad Pharma' down, you should be too.' New Statesman `What keeps you turning its pages is the accessibility of Goldacre's writing ... his genuine, indignant passion, his careful gathering of evidence and his use of stories, some of them personal, which bring the book to life.' Luisia Dilner, Guardian `This is a book that deserves to be widely read, because anyone who does read it cannot help feeling both uncomfortable and angry.' Economist `'Bad Pharma' will confirm his status as a thorn in the side of the medical Establishment - Goldacre's detailed research would be hard for any drug-company executive to contradict' Lois Rogers, Sunday Times Read more...


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