Pharmageddon? Is a hypothesis. Pharmageddon? describes "the prospect of a world in which medicines and medicine produce more ill-health than health, and when medical progress does more harm than good".
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By way of stimulating enquiry, consultation and worthwhile peer review, Social Audit is offering at least eight prizes of €1,000 each for any responses (up to 350 words). See: Call for Abstracts

The Allen Lane Foundation has just awarded Social Audit a grant of £10,000 (€15,000) to explore Pharmageddon - “the prospect of a world in which medicines and medicine produce more ill-health than health, and when medical progress does more harm than good”.

  We applied for this grant specifically to be able to offer attractive prizes/grants for the best submissions (Abstracts) for the inaugural conference on Pharmageddon? to be organised jointly with Health Action International (Europe) in 2008.

  The rules of this competition are simple: we are asking for submissions of up to 350 words on Pharmageddon, by 31 December 2007.  The offer of prizes/grants reflects these thoughts:

 
• The issues are vital and deserve attention: Pharmageddon implies the drug equivalent of Climate Change – or not
       
• The prize money is recompense for hard work, for condensing and honing words, thinking beyond your usual box
• Competition should stimulate participation, and make the challenge equal for passionate believers and disbelievers alike

  For further information, please see the Social Audit website for the original brief on Pharmageddon, and the subsequent Call for Abstracts and/or contact:

  Charles Medawar, Director, Social Audit Ltd on 020 7586 7771 (charles@socialaudit.org.uk)

  Dr Tim Reed, Teresa Alves or Sophie Bloemen at Health Action International (Europe) on +31 206 833 684 (info@haiweb.org)