Hooked
by Brody, HowardEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-01-01
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Summary
This book explores the controversial relationship between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry, identifies the ethical tensions and controversies, and proposes numerous reforms both for medicine's own professional integrity and for effective public regulation of the industry.
Table of Contents
| Introduction : the tipping point | p. 1 |
| The good, the bad, and the ugly : a story of two medications | p. 13 |
| An ethical framework | p. 23 |
| The pharmaceutical industry and the free market | p. 53 |
| Patents, generic drugs, and academic science | p. 69 |
| Research and profits | p. 86 |
| Suppression of research data | p. 97 |
| The quality of pharmaceutical research | p. 117 |
| The drug rep : historical background | p. 139 |
| The drug rep today | p. 166 |
| The influence of drug reps : what the data show | p. 181 |
| Continuing medical education | p. 200 |
| Professional organizations and journal advertising | p. 215 |
| The industry and the consumer | p. 230 |
| The FDA : from patent medicines to AIDS drugs | p. 248 |
| The FDA and the industry, 1990-2004 | p. 268 |
| Solutions : the management and divestment strategies | p. 287 |
| Solutions requiring enhanced professionalism in medicine | p. 299 |
| Solutions requiring regulatory reform | p. 316 |
| Epilogue : industry woes and professional opportunities | p. 339 |
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