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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients by Ben Goldacre (CD-Audio, 2013)

Medicine is broken. We like to imagine that it's based on evidence and the results of fair tests. In reality, those tests are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors are familiar with the research literature surrounding a drug, when in reality much of the research is hidden from them by drug companies. We like to imagine that doctors are impartially educated, when in reality much of their education is funded by industry. We like to imagine that regulators let only effective drugs onto the market, when in reality they approve hopeless drugs, with data on side effects casually withheld from doctors and patients.All these problems have been protected from public scrutiny because they're too complex to capture in a sound bite. But Dr. Ben Goldacre shows that the true scale of this murderous disaster fully reveals itself only when the details are untangled. He believes we should all be able to understand precisely how data manipulation works and how research misconduct on a global scale affects us. In his own words, the tricks and distortions documented in these pages are beautiful, intricate, and fascinating in their details.With Goldacre's characteristic flair and a forensic attention to detail, Bad Pharma reveals a shockingly broken system and calls for something to be done. This is the pharmaceutical industry as it has never been seen before.

Place of Publication
Old Saybrook, Ct
Running Time
720
Narrator(s)
Jonathan Cowley
Author Biography
Ben Goldacre is a doctor and science writer who has written the Bad Science column in the Guardian since 2003. Jonathan Cowley is a British actor whose recording of The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart earned him an AudioFile Earphones Award. He has narrated many audiobooks as well as film trailers and documentaries on both sides of the Atlantic.
Out-Of-Print Date
14/04/2017
Date of Publication
05/02/2013
Subject
Family & Health: General
Imprint
Tantor Media, Inc
Edition Statement
Unabridged
Country of Publication
United States

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