Profits before people? ethical standards and the marketing of prescription drugs /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weber, Leonard J., 1942-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.
Series:Bioethics and the humanities.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ethics and for-profit business
  • The pharmaceutical industry and its stakeholders
  • Drug companies and healthcare professionals : the ethics agenda
  • Medical professionalism and scientific integrity
  • The industry's code : not good enough
  • Drug samples : the most important gifts
  • Marketing is not objective education
  • Medical education : industry at arm's length
  • Clinical research and the limits of commercial interests
  • Citizens and consumers
  • Direct-to-consumer advertising : conflicting interests
  • Direct-to-consumer advertising : better is better.