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Polí­ticas Farmacêuticas: a Serviçodos Interesses da Saúde?

By José Augusto Cabral Barros
2004

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José Augusto Cabral Barros

Professor adjunto de Medicina Social do Centro de Ciências da Saúde,
da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; doutor em Saúde Pública pela
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona; mestre em Medicina Preventiva e
Curso de Especialização em Saúde Pública na Universidade de São Paulo. Fez
estágio de pós-doutorado no Ministério de Sanidad y Consumo de España e
tem inúmeros artigos, crônicas e livro na área de Farmacoepidemiologia.
Tem militado na Health Action Internacional (HAI) e é um dos fundadores
da Sociedade Brasileira de Vigilância de Medicamentos.

 

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Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909