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 | I have enjoyed Ben Goldacre's colum in the Guardian for some time. I initially thought his book was going to be simply a collection of those articles; it is far more than that. What a compelling and comprehensive account he gives of the the nature of evidence-based medicine. Thank goodness there is at least someone "out there" willing, and eminently able, to identify and shame the hucsters, snake-oil salesmen and lazy journalists so wonderfully nailed in this book. It is a book to make you angry. It is a book to tell your friends about. It is a book that should be in every school library. Providing children with an understanding of how and why evidence-based medicine developed, what life was like before it did, and how to assess the health-claims made by the day-time sofa-fillers and assorted self-styled health gurus, should form part of the National Curriculum (teachers could perhaps create some space in the day by ditching Brain Gym....). Ben, thank you. read more.
Written by Ben Goldacre.
Published 06 April 2009.
Published by HarperPerennial.
rrp £8.99.
288 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 000728487X
ISBN-13: 9780007284870 | |
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