Hooked
Subtitle: ethics, the medical profession, and the pharmaceutical industry
By: Howard Brody
Series: Explorations in bioethics and the medical humanities
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780742552180
Subjects: Medical ethics; Pharmaceutical industry -- Moral and ethical aspects; Physicians -- Professional ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The good, the bad, and the ugly : a story of two medications; title: An ethical framework; title: The pharmaceutical industry and the free market; title: Patents, generic drugs, and academic science; title: Research and profits; title: Suppression of research data; title: The quality of pharmaceutical research; title: The drug rep: historical background; title: The drug rep today; title: The influence of drug reps: what the data show; title: Continuing medical education; title: Professional organizations and journal advertising; title: The industry and the consumer; title: The FDA: from patent medicines to AIDS drugs; title: The FDA and the industry, 1990-2004; title: Solutions: the management and divestment strategies; title: Solutions requiring enhanced professionalism in medicine; title: Solutions requiring regulatory reform