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The Shipwreck of the Singular
How Medicine Has Become Depersonalized & Dangerous
7:00pm
- 9:00pm
Thursday March 27 2014
Venue: Potter Auditoriuim, Rowe Building, Dalhousie U.
Address: 6100 University Ave.
The 1960s apparently saw the birth of a new Medical Humanism. We still hear echoes from that time in aspirations to make medicine more patient centred.
This lecture will however outline how the best of intentions to make medicine safer, more patient centred and based in the best possible evidence have in fact had just the opposite outcome - giving rise to an increasingly impersonal healthcare based on ghostwritten or fabricated evidence.
The forces unleashed then are still active now squeezing the last vestiges of medicine out of healthcare. There is a need to act with some urgency if we want to prevent this happening.
This lecture outlines how we got to where we are and what can be done to unpick an increasingly abusive and uncaring system.
Dr. David Healy is an internationally respected psychiatrist, psychopharmacologist, scientist, and author. A professor of Psychiatry in Wales, he studied medicine in Dublin, and at Cambridge University. Visit Dr. Healy's website at davidhealy.org
Dr. Healy's main areas of research are clinical trials in psychopharmacology, the history of psychopharmacology, and the impact of both trials and psychotropic drugs on our culture.
He has been involved as an expert witness in homicide and suicide trials involving psychotropic drugs, and in bringing problems with these drugs to the attention of American and British regulators, as well raising awareness of how pharmaceutical companies sell drugs by marketing diseases and co-opting academic opinion-leaders, ghost-writing their articles.
His latest book, Pharmageddon, documents the riveting and terrifying story of how pharmaceutical companies have hijacked healthcare in America and the life-threatening results.
Topics: Health
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