Ben Goldacre

Bad Pharma (eBook, ePUB)

How Medicine is Broken, And How We Can Fix It

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Bad Science' hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007363643
• Artikelnr.: 38070294

Autorenporträt

Ben Goldacre is a doctor, writer, broadcaster and academic who specialises in unpicking dodgy scientific claims from drug companies, newspapers, government reports, PR people and quacks. His first book, Bad Science, reached Number One in the non-fiction charts, sold over 400,000 copies in the UK alone, and has been translated into 25 languages. He is 38 and lives in London.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
1 Missing Data
2 Where Do New Drugs Come From?
3 Bad Regulators
4 Bad Trials
5 Bigger, Simpler Trials
6 Marketing
Afterword: Better Data
Glossary
Acknowledgements, Further Reading, and a Note on Errors
Notes
Index