Pharmageddon / David Healy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Healy, David, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pharmacology.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This searing indictment, David Healy's most comprehensive and forceful argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine, tackles problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities. Healy, who was the first to draw attention to the now well-publicized suicide-inducing side effects of many anti-depressants, attributes our current state of affairs to three key factors: product rather than process patents on drugs, the classification of certain drugs as prescription-only, and industry-controlled drug trials. These developments have tied the survival of pharmaceutical companies to the development of blockbuster drugs, so that they must overhype benefits and deny real hazards. Healy further explains why these trends have basically ended the possibility of universal health care in the United States and elsewhere around the world. He concludes with suggestions for reform of our currently corrupted evidence-based medical system.

Contents:

They used to call it medicine

Medicine and the marketeers

Follow the evidence

Doctoring the data

Trussed in guidelines

The mismeasurement of medicine

The eclipse of care

Pharmageddon.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613369741

9781283369749

1283369745

9780520951815

0520951816

OCLC:

768731996