Adverse Reactions: The Fenoterol Story
Author(s): Neil Pearce
This dramatic and very topical book tells the story of the fenoterol controversy, a major medical controversy some 15 years ago which involved an asthma drug which was causing an epidemic of asthma deaths. Neil Pearce was of the researchers who discovered, in hostile and often stressful circumstances, that fenoterol was the cause of the epidemic. He tells it as a personal story but it raises many issues about drug safety internationally and about the contest between money and science in medical research. It is gripping reading; and while the epidemic occurred in New Zealand its consequences and the detective story of the discovery of its cause attracted wide international attention in medical journals, conferences etc. First published March 2007.
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"The book is timely in the U.S. coming as it does on the heels of the Vioxx episode and in the midst of active discussion about drug safety reform." "-Epidemiology Monitor"
NEIL PEARCE, professor and director of the Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University, Wellington, has made pioneering contributions to the development, acceptance and practical application of epidemiology and is widely regarded as one the world's most broadly based epidemiologists. He has written fourteen books on the epidemiology of cancer, asthma and occupational health including two leading textbooks on occupational epidemiology and on asthma.
Table of Contents; Chapter 1 Fools rush in; Chapter 2 Some history; Chapter 3 History is rewritten; Chapter 4 History repeats itself; Chapter 5 'Maybe these drugs are not all the same'; Chapter 6 The first study; Chapter 7 Getting the paper published; Chapter 8 Adverse reactions; Chapter 9 The second study; Chapter 10 Mixed reactions; Chapter 11 Positive reactions; Chapter 12 Parting shots
General Fields
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- : Auckland University Press
- : Auckland University Press
- : 0.308
- : 09 March 2007
- : 215mm X 140mm X 20mm
- : New Zealand
- : books
Special Fields
- : Neil Pearce
- : Paperback
- : 616.238061
- : 232
- : Illustrations
