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Hooked : ethics, the medical profession, and the pharmaceutical industry / Howard Brody.

Brody, Howard. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0742552187
  • ISBN: 9780742552180
  • Physical Description: pages ; cm.
  • Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2007]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The good, the bad, and the ugly-a story of two medications -- An ethical framework -- The pharmaceutical industry and the free market -- Patents, generic drugs, and academic science -- Research and profits -- Suppression of research data -- The quality of pharmaceutical research -- The drug rep: historical background -- The drug rep today -- The influence of drug reps: what the data show -- Continuing medical education -- Professional organizations and journal advertising -- The industry and the consumer -- The FDA: from patent medicines to AIDS drugs -- The FDA and the industry, 1990-2004 -- Solutions: the management and divestment strategies -- Solutions requiring enhanced professionalism in medicine -- Solutions requiring regulatory reform.
Subject:
Medical ethics.
Pharmaceutical industry > Moral and ethical aspects.
Physicians > Professional ethics.

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