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

• Pubblicazione: Salem, MA, : M & M Scrivener Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.4/791510973
• Soggetto topico: Pharmaceutical industry; Drug development; Medical innovations; Medical policy - United States; Drugs - economics - United States
• Altri autori: EngelhardtH. Tristram <1941-> (Hugo Tristram) GarrettJeremy R
• 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. Johnson & Ana Smith Iltis.
• Titolo autorizzato: Innovation and the pharmaceutical industry
• ISBN: 1-281-72653-2; 9786611726539; 0-9802094-7-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810609003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Conflicts and trends.