Understanding Physician-Pharmaceutical Industry Interactions

By Shaili Jain

Physician-pharmaceutical industry interactions continue to generate heated debate in academic and public domains, both in the United States and abroad. Despite this, recent research suggests that physicians and physicians-in-training remain ignorant of the core issues and are ill-prepared to understand pharmaceutical industry promotion. There is a vast medical literature on this topic, but no single, concise resource. This book aims to fill that gap by providing a resource that explains the essential elements of this subject. The text makes the reader more aware of the key ethical issues and allows the reader to be a more savvy interpreter of industry promotion, have a heightened awareness of the public and medical legal consequences of some physician-pharmaceutical industry interactions, and be better equipped to handle real-life encounters with industry.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521868645
• ISBN13: 9780521868648
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.2"