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• Title:Pharmageddon / David Healy.
  
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• Author/Creator:Healy, David, 1954-
  
• Published/Created:Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HD9665.5 .H43 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Pharmaceutical industry.
  Drug utilization.
  
• Medical Subjects: Drug Industry.
  Drug Utilization.
  
• Description:xii, 302 p. ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary: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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780520270985 (cloth : alk. paper)
  0520270983 (cloth : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:They used to call it medicine
  Medicine and the marketeers
  Follow the evidence
  Doctoring the data
  Trussed in guidelines
  The mismeasurement of medicine
  The eclipse of care
  Pharmageddon.