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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810609003321

Titolo

Innovation and the pharmaceutical industry : critical reflections on the virtues of profit / / edited by H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. and Jeremy R. Garrett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Salem, MA, : M & M Scrivener Press, c2008

ISBN

1-281-72653-2

9786611726539

0-9802094-7-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Collana

Trends and conflicts

Altri autori (Persone)

EngelhardtH. Tristram <1941-> (Hugo Tristram)

GarrettJeremy R

Disciplina

338.4/791510973

Soggetti

Pharmaceutical industry

Drug development

Medical innovations

Medical policy - United States

Drugs - economics - United States

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pharmaceutical innovation and the market: the pursuit of profit and the amelioration of the human condition / H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. & Jeremy R. Garrett -- The unavoidable goodness of profit: the cunning of reason and the realization of human well-being / H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr -- Corporate social responsibility and business ethics in the pharmaceutical industry / Nicholas Capaldi -- Pharmaceutical companies: psychopaths or scapegoats / Pepe Lee Chang -- Autonomy, constraining options, and pharmaceutical costs / James Stacy Taylor -- Pharmaceutical advertising and patient autonomy / Andrew I. Cohen -- Does America have a second drug problem? / Richard A. Epstein -- Global drug innovation in a world of financial finitude: retailing virtue to promote -- Capital formation and profit / Michael A. Rie -- Time, money, and the market for drugs / John C. Goodman -- Perils of parallel trade: reimporting prescription drugs from Canada to the U.S. / John R. Graham -- Risk, responsibility, and litigation / Sandra H.



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