
Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime
How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare
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.
Come here for
- A serious challenge to pharmaceutical research, marketing, and drug regulation
- A look at how industry claims shape trust in medicines
Expect
- Evidence-based criticism of industry practices and regulatory failures
- A pointed comparison between pharmaceutical companies and tobacco conglomerates
Where it sits
| Pharma & Biotech Industry | 33% |
|---|---|
| Health Care Policy | 31% |
| Health Policy | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
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