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Hooked : ethics, the medical profession, and the pharmaceutical industry
- Title
- Hooked : ethics, the medical profession, and the pharmaceutical industry / Howard Brody.
- Author
- Brody, Howard.
- Publication
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2007], ©2007.
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- Description
- xii, 367 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Explorations in bioethics and the medical humanities
- Uniform Title
- Explorations in bioethics and the medical humanities.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : the tipping point -- 1. The good, the bad, and the ugly : a story of two medications -- 2. An ethical framework -- 3. The pharmaceutical industry and the free market -- 4. Patents, generic drugs, and academic science -- 5. Research and profits -- 6. Suppression of research data -- 7. The quality of pharmaceutical research -- 8. The drug rep : historical background -- 9. The drug rep today -- 10. The influence of drug reps : what the data show -- 11. Continuing medical education -- 12. Professional organizations and journal advertising -- 13. The industry and the consumer -- 14. The FDA : from patent medicines to AIDS drugs -- 15. The FDA and the industry, 1990-2004 -- 16. Solutions : the management and divestment strategies -- 17. Solutions requiring enhanced professionalism in medicine -- 18. Solutions requiring regulatory reform -- Epilogue : industry woes and professional opportunities.
- ISBN
- 0742552187 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780742552180 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006018423
- 9780742552180
- OCLC
- OCM70051363
- SCSB-5302522
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries