Ghost-Managed Medicine: How the Pharmaceutical Industry has Taken Over “Medical Knowledge” to Sustain the Market for its Products

Ghost-Managed Medicine:Big Pharma’s Invisible Hands by Dr. Sergio Sismondo is a detailed study of how the pharmaceutical industry has taken control over “medical knowledge” to secure and sustain the market for its products. Other authors who have focused on the corrupted science of a specific drug, class of drugs, a vaccine, or a device, left the impression that the problem involved a few “bad apples”.  Dr. Sismondo examines the industry-wide modus operandi that enabled Pharma to capture and control the science, and by extension, to control he practice of medicine. He shows how the medical establishment, its academic and professional institutions, and its leadership succumbed to Pharma’s financial incentives and collaborated with the demolition of an honest medical knowledge base. The medical establishment ceded professional integrity to the pharmaceutical industry which now controls and ghost-manages every facet in the production of medical research and its dissemination prior to launching a new product and throughout its patent life.