Alan Cassels

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The Cochrane Collaboration: Medicine's Best-Kept Secret (eBook, ePUB)

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"The Cochrane Collaboration... rivals the Human Genome Project in its potential implications for modern medicine." - C. David Naylor, The Lancet "How can we have a rational health service if we don't know which of the things being done in it are useful and which are useless or possibly even harmful?" - Archie Cochrane, Effectiveness and Efficiency, 1972 What's hocus-pocus and what really works? In the complex, ever-evolving realm of modern medicine, how can you even begin to understand what's hocus-pocus and what really works? Best-selling author and researcher Alan Cassels answers with a single word: Cochrane. Though largely unknown to the public, the Cochrane Collaboration is made up of more than 30,000 medical researchers and consumer representatives from more than 100 countries - unbiased experts and investigators who parse the science of modern health care and delve deep into the evidence (or lack thereof) to determine what works and what doesn't. In this frank, factual and entertaining volume, Cassels draws from more than 160 interviews to shed light on this international cadre of medical truth-seekers whose rigorous work helps prevent medical misjudgement, reduce unnecessary suffering, preserve lives and circumvent the squandering of billions of dollars. Alan Cassels is a University of Victoria health policy researcher and a trusted media commentator on medical policy issues. He is the co-author of the internationally bestselling book "Selling Sickness", and a frequent contributor to magazines, newspapers and radio programs.

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Alan Cassels has been immersed in pharmaceutical policy research for the past 20 years, studying how prescription drugs are regulated, marketed, prescribed and used. Most of the time he obsessively dissects the large gap between the marketing and the science behind prescription drugs, medical screening and other forms of disease creation. His books include Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning Us All into Patients (co-written with Ray Moynihan); The ABCs of Disease Mongering: An Epidemic in 26 Letters; and Seeking Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease.
In all of his books, Cassels weighs in on the folly of practitioners and profiteers increasingly selling us tests, treatments and theories of disease that threaten to turn more and more of us into patients. He believes that humans need clean information as urgently as they need clean water, and one of the best ways to steer clear of avoidable medical intervention, folly and harm is by using the products of the Cochrane Collaboration, one of the world's best sources of quality medical information.
Cassels is a health policy researcher affiliated with the Faculty of Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria. He is a trusted media commentator on medical policy issues and a frequent contributor to magazines, newspapers and the CBC Radio program IDEAS. He lectures and presents keynote speeches around the world. Contact him at [e-mail], twitter: @AKECassels

Produktdetails

• Verlag: AgioPublishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781927755327
• Artikelnr.: 72360034