Bad pharma
(Audiobook CD)
Author
Contributors
Published
[Old Saybrook, Ct.] : Tantor Audio, [2013].
ISBN
9781452641690, 1452641692
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Oak Lawn Public Library - AV | CD 615.10724 GOLDACRE | Checked out |
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Published
[Old Saybrook, Ct.] : Tantor Audio, [2013].
Format
Audiobook CD
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (12hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
ISBN
9781452641690, 1452641692
Notes
General Note
Unabridged.
General Note
Compact discs.
General Note
Bonus materials: Figures and graphs in printable PDF format included.
Participants/Performers
Read by Jonathan Cowley.
Description
In this book the author puts the $600 billion dollar global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess. His previous book Bad Science exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science. In this follow-up, he points out that doctors and patients need good scientific evidence to make informed decisions. But instead, companies run bad trials on their own drugs, which distort and exaggerate the benefits by design. When these trials produce unflattering results, the data is simply buried. All of this is perfectly legal. In fact, even government regulators withhold vitally important data from the people who need it most. Doctors and patient groups have stood by too, and failed to protect us. Instead, they take money and favours, in a world so fractured that medics and nurses are now educated by the drugs industry. Patients are harmed in huge numbers. The author, a writer on the science behind medicine, here shows exactly how the science has been distorted, how our systems have been broken, and waht is needed to fix them.
Target Audience
General adult.
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AUDIOBOOK CD
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Goldacre, B., & Cowley, J. (2013). Bad pharma (Library edition.). Tantor Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Goldacre, Ben and Jonathan, Cowley. 2013. Bad Pharma. Tantor Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Goldacre, Ben and Jonathan, Cowley. Bad Pharma Tantor Audio, 2013.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Goldacre, Ben., and Jonathan Cowley. Bad Pharma Library edition., Tantor Audio, 2013.
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