| Description |
viii, 182 pages ; 27 cm |
| Series |
Pharmacology-research, safety testing, and regulation series |
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Public health in the 21st century series |
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Pharmacology-research, safety testing, and regulation series.
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Public health in the 21st century series.
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| Contents |
The errors and deficiencies of the randomised, clinical trial (RCT) -- Problems with the premises of the RCT -- Passive or active placebo? -- Measuring the effect of drugs in RTC. -- The observation time of the randomised clinical trial (RCT) -- Efficacy of biomedicine in general practice -- The cost of a patient cured with biomedicine compared to the original, Hippocratic, holistic medicine -- The chemical medicine's efficacy in the serious diseases. Somatic medicine : cancer and coronary heart disease. Psychiatry : depression and schizophrenia -- The marketing strategy and the values of Big Pharma -- Biomedicine and holistic medicine in conflict -- How do we develop medicine from being poisonous drugs into being an efficient and safe medicine? -- Conclusion : the pharmaceutical industry sells poisons as medicine and knows that the documentation should be better -- Scientific résumé |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Clinical trials.
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Placebos (Medicine)
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Drugs -- Toxicology.
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Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic.
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Drug Toxicity.
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Placebos.
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Treatment Outcome.
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| Author |
Merrick, Joav, 1950-
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| LC no. |
2011020025 |
| ISBN |
9781614700678 (hardcover) |
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1614700672 (hardcover) |
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