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

By: Brody, Howard.
Material type: TextTextSeries: Explorations in bioethics and the medical humanities. Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, c2007Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: xii, 367 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0742552187 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780742552180 (cloth : alk. paper).Subject(s): Medical ethics | Pharmaceutical industry -- Moral and ethical aspects | Physicians -- Professional ethics | Physicians -- United States | Pharmaceutical industry -- United StatesDDC classification: 174.2/951 Online resources: Table of contents
Contents:
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.
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Two Weeks Davenport Library Circulating Collection Print-Circulating 174.2951 B785 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34284003688496

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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