Pharmageddon [Kindle Edition]
Author: David Healy | Language: English | ISBN: B006K67HCW | Format: PDF, EPUB
Pharmageddon
Free download Pharmageddon from 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link 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. Direct download links available for Pharmageddon [Kindle Edition]
Free download Pharmageddon from 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link 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. Direct download links available for Pharmageddon [Kindle Edition]
- File Size: 524 KB
- Print Length: 316 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0520270983
- Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (March 12, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B006K67HCW
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #358,673 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #63 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Professional & Technical > Medical eBooks > Administration & Policy > Health Policy
- #77 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Professional & Technical > Medical eBooks > Pharmacology > Pharmacy
Working as a psychiatrist in different countries, systems and settings as I did during the last 25 years has taught me that nothing is ever written in stone. What is considered safe and effective in one place may be looked at as harmful or useless in another. Psychiatry is definitively not an exact science and working with human beings' sufferings often needs more creativity than rigid guidelines. When working as a community psychiatrist we learn very rapidly the limits of what we were taught in academic forums and research literature. Reading David Healy's book comforted me in something that patients (our co-partners in the difficult business of healing bruised souls) had convinced me of a long time ago: how much they know and how carefully we need to listen to them ...
David Healy is a serious man. As a caring clinician and internationally recognized expert in pharmacology, epidemiology and the history of psychiatry, this Irish professor may be reminiscent of both Sherlock Holmes and Atticus Finch.
His latest book, Pharmageddon, is a riveting detective story, a meticulous account of the troubling evolution of the practice of medicine and a compelling plea for a better protection of those that medicine is supposed to serve. It is a must-read for all of us. Beware though, that, as a physician or as someone who will sooner or later be a client of the healthcare system, you may be in for a painful ride. It takes only a few pages to realize that, if you are a health care provider, you may already have become, willingly of not, an accomplice of a system that has slowly but surely drifted from the shores of a "First do no harm" philosophy to shores covered by a growing number of victims of poorly or overly prescribed medications.
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