Pharmageddon (eBook)

David Healy (Autor)

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2012
320 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-95181-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.3.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pharmazie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: addiction • american healthcare • anti-depressants • Big Pharma • blockbuster drugs • dangers of prescription drugs • drug companies • Drug use • evidence based medical system • Evidence Based Medicine • healthcare and drugs • healthcare and pharamceuticals • medical lit • medications and safety • medication side effects • medicine and healthcare • Mental Illness • pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry • Pharmaceutical companies • pharmaceuticalization of medicine • pharmacy books • prescription drug safety • universal healthcare
• ISBN-10: 0-520-95181-6 / 0520951816
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-95181-5 / 9780520951815