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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784574503321

Autore

Kassirer Jerome P. <1932->

Titolo

On the take [[electronic resource] ] : how America's complicity with big business can endanger your health / / Jerome P. Kassirer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-280-56052-5

1-4237-4669-4

0-19-803929-8

1-60256-530-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

174.2/6

Soggetti

Physicians - Professional ethics - United States

Pharmaceutical industry - Corrupt practices - United States

Medical ethics - United States

Conflict of interests

Gifts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-239) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Free gifts, free meals, free education, special deals -- Money-warped behavior -- Conflicts of interest : financial and otherwise -- Influenced by gifts? Not I! -- Your doctor's tainted information -- Our obliging professional organizations -- Can you trust your doctor? -- Can we trust our researchers? -- How did it happen? -- What can be done?

Sommario/riassunto

On the Take offers an unsettling look at the pervasive payoffs that physicians take from big drug companies and other medical suppliers, arguing that the billion-dollar onslaught of industry money has deflected many physicians' moral compasses and directly impacted the everyday care we receive from the doctors and trusted institutions.