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Author Kassirer, Jerome P., 1932-

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

Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  174.26 K154o 2005    ---  Available
Description xviii, 251 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-239) and index.
Contents 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?
Subject Physicians -- Professional ethics.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Corrupt practices.
Medical ethics.
Conflict of interests.
Gifts.
Added Title How America's complicity with big business can endanger your health
How medicine's complicity with big business can endanger your health
ISBN 0195176847 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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