Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime by Peter Gotzsche

Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime

How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare

Peter Gotzsche, Peter C. Gøtzsche

Taylor and Francis · Print & ebook · August 30, 2013

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE THE THIRD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AFTER HEART DISEASE AND CANCER.

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Who it’s for
Peter C. Gøtzsche makes a forceful case for examining the drug industry’s influence on healthcare.
Genres
Health Policy, Pharma & Biotech Industry, Health Care Policy
Published
Taylor and Francis, August 30, 2013

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PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE THE THIRD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AFTER HEART DISEASE AND CANCER. In his latest ground-breaking book, Peter C Gotzsche exposes the pharmaceutical industries and their charade of fraudulent behaviour, both in research and marketing where the morally repugnant disregard for human lives is the norm.

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He convincingly draws close comparisons with the tobacco conglomerates, revealing the extraordinary truth behind efforts to confuse and distract the public and their politicians. The book addresses, in evidence-based detail, an extraordinary system failure caused by widespread crime, corruption, bribery and impotent drug regulation in need of radical reforms. "The main reason we take so many drugs is that drug companies don't sell drugs, they sell lies about drugs. This is what makes drugs so different from anything else in life...Virtually everything we know about drugs is what the companies have chosen to tell us and our doctors...the reason patients trust their medicine is that they extrapolate the trust they have in their doctors into the medicines they prescribe. The patients don't realise that, although their doctors may know a lot about diseases and human physiology and psychology, they know very, very little about drugs that hasn't been carefully concocted and dressed up by the drug industry...If you don't think the system is out of control, please email me and explain why drugs are the third leading cause of death...If such a hugely lethal epidemic had been caused by a new bacterium or a virus, or even one-hundredth of it, we would have done everything we could to get it under control." FROM THE INTRODUCTION

Medicine Under Scrutiny

Peter C. Gøtzsche makes a forceful case for examining the drug industry’s influence on healthcare.

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  • A serious challenge to pharmaceutical research, marketing, and drug regulation
  • A look at how industry claims shape trust in medicines

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  • Evidence-based criticism of industry practices and regulatory failures
  • A pointed comparison between pharmaceutical companies and tobacco conglomerates

Where it sits

Pharma & Biotech Industry33%
Health Care Policy31%
Health Policy30%

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Publisher categories

  • Medical Administration
Authors
Peter Gotzsche, Peter C. Gøtzsche
Publisher
Taylor and Francis
Published
August 30, 2013
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Medical Administration