The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Global High-Tech Challenge at the Interface of Science, Politics, and Illusions

ISBN-13: 9780323991490 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 250 str.

Klaus Rose

Spis treści

1. Introduction
2. We are no longer hunters and gatherers. States, values, and healthcare today
3. COVID-19
4. Low tech, high-tech, accidents and disasters
5. Healthcare structures and professions, drug development, regulatory authorities
6. Basic and Applied Science, Research and Development (R&D), Business, and More
7. Conflicts of interest in healthcare and the self-picture of physicians and healthcare professionals
8. The worlds of television, soap operas, and the real world
9. Abuse of science, vaccination scepticism, and pseudo-science
10. Warnings about Armageddon, global warming, and more
11. Social inequality, developing countries and COVID-19
12. Russia And China are giants on feet of clay
13. Outlook

O autorze

Dr. Klaus Rose is a medical doctor by training and profession. In the 1990s, after clinical training, he joined the pharmaceutical industry. In 1999 at Novartis in Switzerland, he came across clinical studies in children and was intrigued. His eldest daughter suffered from Sturge-Weber syndrome, which is serious and very rare. Dr. Rose became passionate about "pediatric drug development” and what the European Medicines Agency (EMA) called "Better Medicines for Children.” He became global head pediatrics at Novartis from 2001-2005 and moved to the same position 2005-2009 at Genentech/Roche. After one more year at a regulatory company, he became an independent consultant in 2011. He advises companies on EMA "pediatric investigation plans” (PIPs), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pediatric requests or demands. He detected fundamental flaws in "Pediatric Drug Development" and publishes about this (and more) in peer-reviewed journals and medical textbooks.