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-in…
"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 …
by Krska, Janet, Elseviers, Monique, Stichele, Robert Vander, Vlahović-Palčevski, Vera, Taxis, Kstja, Poluzzi, Elisabetta, Godman, Brian, Eriksson, Irene, Bennie, Marion, Benko, Ria, Andersen, Morten, Almarsdóttir, Anna Birna, Wettermark, Bjorn
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Drug Utilization Research (DUR) is an eclectic scientific discipline, integrating descriptive and analytical methods for the quantification, understanding and evaluation of the processes of prescribing, dispensing and consumption of medicines and for the testing of interventions…
A practical guide to the assessment and evaluation of prescribing practices and to interventions to improve the use of medicines in populations.
General principles -- Epidemiological measures -- Other measures -- Strengths and limitations of individual-level statistics -- Chapter 8: Measurement of drug expenditure -- Introduction -- Definitions and perspectives -- Price-related units of pharmaceutical expenditure -- Meth…
Reveals the unethical drug testing practices of the multinational pharmaceutical industry. Based on research and reporting from Africa and Asia, the author shows how the pharmaceutical industry is using testing procedures in the global South that would cause scandals in the deve…
Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War examines how intoxicants have been put to the service of states, empires and their armies throughout history. Since the beginning of organized combat, armed forces have prescribed drugs to their members for two general purposes: to e…
Pharmacologically enhanced militaries -- Alcohol -- From pre-modern times to the end of the Second World War -- Pre-modern times: opium, hashish, mushrooms and coca -- Napoleon in Egypt and the adventures of Europeans with hashish -- The Opium Wars -- The American Civil War, opi…
Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War examines how intoxicants have been put to the service of states, empires and their armies throughout history. Since the beginning of organized combat, armed forces have prescribed drugs to their members for two general purposes: to e…
