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Hooked - Howard Brody

Hooked

How Medicine's Dependence on the Pharmaceutical Industry Undermines Professional Ethics

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
382 Seiten
2006
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-7425-5218-0 (ISBN)
CHF 59,90 inkl. MwSt
Explores the controversial relationship between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry, and identifies the ethical tensions and controversies. This title proposes many reforms both for medicine's own professional integrity and for effective public regulation of the industry.
For decades, medical professionals have betrayed the public's trust by accepting various benefits from the pharmaceutical industry. Both drug company representatives and doctors employ artful spin to portray this behavior positively to the public, and to themselves. In Hooked, Howard Brody argues that we can neither understand the problem, nor propose helpful solutions until we identify the many levels of activity connecting these purportedly noble industries. We can pass laws and enact regulations, but ultimately the medical profession must take responsibility for its own integrity. Hooked is a wake-up call for anyone expecting high quality, ethical medical care.

Howard Brody is professor and director for the Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Brody was University Distinguished Professor of family practice, and philosophy at Michigan State University, where he also sat on the faculty of the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences; he served as director of the Center from 1985-2000. Dr. Brody completed his residency in family practice at the University of Virginia Medical Center. He received his MD from the College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, in 1976, and his PhD in Philosophy, also from Michigan State University, in 1977. He currently sits on the board of the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities, and specializes in ethics and the doctor-patient relationship. He has authored five books, among them Stories of Sickness (2002) and The Placebo Response: How You Can Release the Body's Inner Pharmacy for Better Health (2000). For up-to-date news about the issues covered in Hooked, visit Dr. Brody's new blog.

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Tipping Point
Part 2 I. Overview
Chapter 3 1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Story of Two Medications
Chapter 4 2. An Ethical Framework
Part 5 II. Specific Issues and Problems
Chapter 6 3. The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Free Market
Chapter 7 4. Patents, Generic Drugs, and Academic Science
Chapter 8 5. Research and Profits
Chapter 9 6. Suppression of Research Data
Chapter 10 7. The Quality of Pharmaceutical Research
Chapter 11 8. The Drug Rep: Historical Background
Chapter 12 9. The Drug Rep Today
Chapter 13 10. The Influence of Drug Reps: What the Data Show
Chapter 14 11. Continuing Medical Education
Chapter 15 12. Professional Organizations and Journal Advertising
Chapter 16 13. The Industry and the Consumer
Chapter 17 14. The FDA: From Patent Medicine to AIDS Drugs
Chapter 18 15. The FDA and the Industry, 1990-2004
Part 19 III. Toward Solutions
Chapter 20 16. Solutions: The Management and Divestment Strategies
Chapter 21 17. Solutions Requiring Enhanced Professionalism in Medicine
Chapter 22 18. Solutions Requiring Regulatory Reform
Chapter 23 Epilogue: Industry Woes and Professional Opportunities

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.2.2007
Reihe/Serie Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities
Sprache englisch
Maße 161 x 243 mm
Gewicht 626 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Medizin / Pharmazie Pharmazie
Technik
ISBN-10 0-7425-5218-7 / 0742552187
ISBN-13 978-0-7425-5218-0 / 9780742552180
Zustand Neuware
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