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Pharmageddon (Paperback) Loot Price: R662
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Pharmageddon (Paperback)

David Healy

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This searing indictment, David HealyOCOs 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.

General

Imprint: University of California Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 2012
First published: April 2013
Authors: David Healy
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-27576-8
Categories: Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Manufacturing industries > Pharmaceutical industries
Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General
LSN: 0-520-27576-4
Barcode: 9780520275768

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