Pharmageddon

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 a...