Bad Pharma

How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

Ben Goldacre

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
01 April 2014

Manufacturing industries; Medicine

""Smart, funny, clear, unflinching: Ben Goldacre is my hero."" --Mary Roach, author of Stiff, Spook, and Bonk

We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair testing and clinical trials. In reality, those tests and trials are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors who write prescriptions for everything from antidepressants to cancer drugs to heart medication are familiar with the research literature about these drugs, when in reality much of the research is hidden from them by drug companies. We like to imagine that doctors are impartially educated, when in reality much of their education is funded by the pharmaceutical industry. We like to imagine that regulators have some code of ethics and let only effective drugs onto the market, when in reality they approve useless drugs, with data on side effects casually withheld from doctors and patients.

All these problems have been shielded from public scrutiny because they are too complex to capture in a sound bite. Ben Goldacre shows that the true scale of this murderous disaster fully reveals itself only when the details are untangled. He believes we should all be able to understand precisely how data manipulation works and how research misconduct in the medical industry affects us on a global scale.

With Goldacre's characteristic flair and a forensic attention to detail, Bad Pharma reveals a shockingly broken system in need of regulation. This is the pharmaceutical industry as it has never been seen before.

By: Ben Goldacre
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 141mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 417g
ISBN: 9780865478060
ISBN 10: 0865478066
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 01 April 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ben Goldacre is a doctor and a writer. His first book, Bad Science, was an international bestseller and has been translated into twenty-five languages. He lives in London.