White Coat, Black Hat : Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine (Paperback)

from rivkat

A really engaging, if depressing, read. Elliott starts with a chapter on human guinea pigs, who lie and are lied to and whose experiences determine what drugs will be available to the general population. He covers medical ghostwriters (and the prominent physicians who allow their names to be put ...

from Citizenjoyce

White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine increased my belief that modern medicine has little to do with promoting health and is instead one more example of capitalism gone wild. Test subjects are the worst, least altruistically motivated or compliant people on whom to test m...

from rivkat

A really engaging, if depressing, read. Elliott starts with a chapter on human guinea pigs, who lie and are lied to and whose experiences determine what drugs will be available to the general population. He covers medical ghostwriters (and the prominent physicians who allow their names to be put ...

from Citizenjoyce

White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine increased my belief that modern medicine has little to do with promoting health and is instead one more example of capitalism gone wild. Test subjects are the worst, least altruistically motivated or compliant people on whom to test m...