Bottle of Lies

书名：Bottle of LiesTheInsideStoryoftheGenericDrugBoom
作者：KatherineEban
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ISBN：9780062338785
出版社：Ecco
出版时间：2019-5-14
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：512
豆瓣评分： 8.7

书籍简介：

Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health developments of the twenty-first century. Today, almost 90 percent of our pharmaceutical market is comprised of generics, the majority of which are manufactured overseas. We have been reassured by our doctors, our pharmacists and our regulators that generic drugs are identical to their brand-name counterparts, just less expensive. But is this really true? Katherine Eban’s Bottle of Lies exposes the deceit behind generic-drug manufacturing—and the attendant risks for global health. Drawing on exclusive accounts from whistleblowers and regulators, as well as thousands of pages of confidential FDA documents, Eban reveals an industry where fraud is rampant, companies routinely falsify data, and executives circumvent almost every principle of safe manufacturing to minimize cost and maximize profit, confident in their ability to fool inspectors. Meanwhile, patients unwittingly consume medicine with unpredictable and dangerous effects. The story of generic drugs is truly global. It connects middle America to China, India, sub-Saharan Africa and Brazil, and represents the ultimate litmus test of globalization: what are the risks of moving drug manufacturing offshore, and are they worth the savings? A decade-long investigation with international sweep, high-stakes brinkmanship and big money at its core, Bottle of Lies reveals how the world’s greatest public-health innovation has become one of its most astonishing swindles.

作者简介：

Katherine Eban, an investigative journalist, is a Fortune magazine contributor and Andrew Carnegie fellow. Her narrative, deeply reported articles on pharmaceutical counterfeiting, gun trafficking, and coercive interrogations by the CIA, have won international attention and numerous awards. She lectures frequently on the topic of pharmaceutical integrity. Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom, which she worked on for five years and reported on four continents, is her second book. Educated at Brown University and Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband, two daughters and Newfoundland dog Romeo.

书友短评：

@ Cecilia 触目惊心。显然仿制药的问题是整个行业系统性的问题，从美国mylan在wv的manufacturing plant到印度的dr reddy到中国的海正、华海药业到mnc在印度中国的厂… 头部企业qaqc已经拉垮至此，中小企业还能被entrust吗？此外eban提出的dilemma很真实，affordability和quality如何做tradeoff? 但其实书里也给出了部分答案，制药过程合规虽然增加成本，但并不是天文数字。隐隐担忧，集采拼命杀价背后，一致性评价结果可信吗😂 @ sato酱 配合作者访谈来听，毕竟描述的内容有些过于夸张 @ 秋夜早睡 写法像Bad blood，还不错。其实也是可以想见的，关于处于第三世界的仿制药相关境况。 @ momo 案例都不错，以及现在知道为啥很多试验都在某些国家搞了吧，背后当地问题也不小啊

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