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Author:

Goldacre, Ben.

Title:

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

Edition:

1st American ed.

Publisher:

Faber and Faber,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xvii, 426 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Drugs--Testing.
Drugs--Moral and ethical aspects.--Moral and ethical aspects.
Clinical trials--Moral and ethical aspects.
Pharmaceutical industry--Moral and ethical aspects.
Drugs--Quality control.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Missing data -- Where do new drugs come from? -- Bad regulators -- Bad trials -- Bigger, simpler trials -- Marketing -- Afterword: better data.

Summary:

Goldacre puts the 600-billion-dollar global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess.

ISBN:

0865478007 (hbk.)
9780865478008 (hbk.)

LCCN:

2012038902

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

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