Pharmaceutical Industry

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Bleed

Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care

Journalist Tracey Lindeman knows it all too well. Decades of suffering from endometriosis propelled the creation of BLEED — part memoir, part investigative journalism, and all … 322 View

Doctors in Denial

Why Big Pharma and the Canadian Medical Profession are Too Close for Comfort

Examines the relationship between the Canadian medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry, and explains how doctors have become dependents of the drug companies instead of champions of … 344 View
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Foreword

From: Doctors in Denial

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In this personal account Dr. Brian Goldman explains his relationship with Purdue Pharma Canada and how he played a major role as a promoter of OxyContin, for chronic pain, falsely claiming that … 8 $0.80 Add
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Introduction

Doctors in denial: welcome to the comfort zone

From: Doctors in Denial

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Provides an overview of the medical industry in Canada paying particular attention to the influence of the pharmaceutical industry. Outlines and examines critically the different opinions … 14 $1.40 Add
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Medicine and industry

a marriage of convenience or a marriage made in heaven?

From: Doctors in Denial

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Outlines how the alliance between the pharmaceutical industry and the medical community developed; economics, Medicare and patents were factors. 15 $1.50 Add
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Surviving the Dysbiosphere

From: Secret Life of Your Microbiome

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The international statistics on mental health in developed nations are troubling to say the least. In the United States 25 percent of the adult population reports having a mental illness in a … ; 35 $3.50 Add
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Government, industry and the medical profession

ménage à trois

From: Doctors in Denial

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Describes how the alliance between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry developed in the period from the 1960s to 2015. 27 $2.70 Add
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Medical journals — advertisements, money, regulation, rebellion and possibly retrenchment

From: Doctors in Denial

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Discusses the relationship between medical journals and the pharmaceutical industry. Discusses the push back of medical journals towards the pharmaceutical industry in more recent years and … 37 $3.70 Add
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Academic health science centres

research, money, controversies, conflict of interest and independence

From: Doctors in Denial

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Describes and analyzes the money received by academic health science centres from the pharmaceutical industry for research and the conflicts that this money may create. 32 $3.20 Add
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Nervous Breakdown

the great birth control swindle

From: Bleed

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In this chapter, Lindeman examines the medical reaction to female pain and the shift towards pharmaceutical intervention to alleviate this pain. Lindeman uses research as well as her own … 27 $2.70 Add
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Your Microbial Orchestra

From: Secret Life of Your Microbiome

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Microbes have been with humans for every step of our evolutionary journey. Symbiosis describes living in close proximity with mutual advantage — an apt description of our relationship with … ; 39 $3.90 Add
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Key opinion leaders, clinical practice guidelines and medical societies

getting the message out

From: Doctors in Denial

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Examines the impact of the conflicts of interest that occur when Canadian researchers and Canadian medical societies rely on pharmaceutical companies for favours, trips, and research funding. 31 $3.10 Add
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We’re Desperate

to breed or not to breed?

From: Bleed

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In this chapter, Lindeman examines how reproductive health is impacted by the financially lucrative pharmaceutical industry. She recounts the non-consensual drug trials, mass-sterilizations, and … 44 $4.40 Add
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Guidelines on relationships between industry and the medical profession

a guide to salvation?

From: Doctors in Denial

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Discusses the development of ethical guidelines regarding the pharmaceutical industry by medical organizations by five organizations: the Canadian Medical Association, the College of Physicians … 39 $3.90 Add
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I Wanna Be Well

the pain scale and other lies

From: Bleed

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In this chapter, Lindeman discusses how male dominant medical trials, a universal pain scale, and the chronic but non-fatal nature of pelvic disorders contribute to a disregard for the pain … 33 $3.30 Add
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Encephalobiotics Turn the Mind

From: Secret Life of Your Microbiome

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In this chapter, we more closely examine specific microbial and nutritional interventions, and the prospect that we might regain health by correcting dysbiosis and manipulating microbes. The … ; 35 $3.50 Add