Cover Image

Hooked: ethics, the medical profession, and the pharmaceutical industry/

Main Author: Brody, Howard
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, [c2007]
Series:Explorations in bioethics and the medical humanities
Subjects:
Medical ethics
Pharmaceutical industry > Moral and ethical aspects
Physicians > Professional ethics
Ethics, Medical > United States
Conflict of Interest > United States
Drug Industry > United States
Physicians > United States
Public Policy > United States
Table of 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.

Similar Items