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David Healy
Professor in Psychological Medicine, critic of lack of neutrality on psychotropic drugs
We are losing sight and sense of health'
David Healy is a true powerhouse in the world of pharmacology and psychiatry! This trailblazing professor and historian has made a name for himself by fearlessly tackling some of the most pressing issues in medicine today. His research focuses on the contribution of antidepressants to suicide and the history of pharmacology. He is also known for criticising a lack of neutrality regarding psychotropic drugs and his role in ‘Toronto Affair’ over academic freedom.
Healy's work isn't just influential - it's downright revolutionary. His groundbreaking book, Pharmageddon, pulls back the curtain on the American medical industry, exposing the ways in which pharmaceutical giants market diseases and manipulate the authority of academics and journalists for their own gain.
"An enfant terrible―and a very brave man. I doubt he is on Pfizer’s Christmas card list." - Times Literary Supplement
We are losing sight and sense of health'
David Healy is a true powerhouse in the world of pharmacology and psychiatry! This trailblazing professor and historian has made a name for himself by fearlessly tackling some of the most pressing issues in medicine today. His research focuses on the contribution of antidepressants to suicide and the history of pharmacology. He is also known for criticising a lack of neutrality regarding psychotropic drugs and his role in ‘Toronto Affair’ over academic freedom.
Healy's work isn't just influential - it's downright revolutionary. His groundbreaking book, Pharmageddon, pulls back the curtain on the American medical industry, exposing the ways in which pharmaceutical giants market diseases and manipulate the authority of academics and journalists for their own gain.
"An enfant terrible―and a very brave man. I doubt he is on Pfizer’s Christmas card list." - Times Literary Supplement
David Healy Videos
Are Doctors Bad For Us?
Medicine, trust, and power
How specialisation is killing us
Life, death, and specialisation
Doctors in the Age of Google
Is it time to rid ourselves of medical authority?
How medicine ignores our bodies
Physiology's challenge to medicine
Doctors and the Danger Industry
Can big data improve the effectiveness of drugs?
David Healy Articles
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Madness, Incorporated
Are psychiatric diagnoses real?
The Persecution of Heretics
How inconvenient science gets shut down
Sex, Lies and Pharmacology
David Healy | Psychiatric drugs destroy sex lives
Your Life in the Balance
Should we trust doctors less than we do?
Docs in the Dock
What can we do about medical errors?
Are Hospitals Bad For Us?
Social justice impacts our health more than medicine
What's wrong with us?
Is it time for AI to do more to help doctors?
How medicine ignores our bodies
Physiology's challenge to medicine
How specialisation is killing us
Life, death, and specialisation
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CRISPR's Brave New World
Science is based in metaphor
Rewriting the code of life
The moral case for eugenics?
The false promise of human gene editing
A new paradigm to understand pain
Euthanasia isn't a slippery slope
Looking at genes through a human lens
The mystery and origins of play
Biology's Uncertainty Principle
The fight for the future of biology
Nature didn't make us human, culture did
From Darwin to Derrida: evolution as interpretation
Too much pleasure causes pain
How science makes politics absurd
Cracking the creation of life
The ocean is the engine of the Earth
The microorganism that shaped humanity
The Brave New World of synthetic humans
The post-antibiotic apocalypse is here
The mystery of living things
A new theory of matter may help explain life
The mind-body problem is ruining our health
Suspended Ethics?
Entering the Soul Niche
A New Science of Life
Who First into the Ark?
An Enemy of The Open Society
Life, agency, and the evolution of free will
Music is the key to understanding life