Pharmaceuticals, Corporate Crime and Public Health

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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The pharmaceutical industry must exist to serve the community, but over the years it has engaged repeatedly in corporate crime and anti-social behavior, with the public footing the bill. This readable study by experts in medicine, law, criminology and public health, with deep experience of the industry, documents problems ranging from false advertising and counterfeiting to corruption, fraud and overpricing. It is a fresh and revealing look at the unacceptable pressures brought to bear on doctors, politicians, patients and the media.Uniquely, the book presents realistic and worldwide solutions for the future, with positive policies encouraging honest dealing, as well as partial privatization of enforcement and a transformation of science policy to develop the medicines that society needs most. The authors examine in turn each of the main facets of the pharmaceutical industry's activities - research, manufacturing, information, distribution and pricing - as well as some questionable aspects of its relationship with society.Offering a considered analysis of pharmaceutical rights and wrongs as they have developed, particularly over the last half-century, this book is rich in new insights for managers in the pharmaceutical industry, regulatory agencies and health agencies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-03-27
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781784713614

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The late Graham Dukes, formerly MD FRCP LLM, External Professor of Health Policy Studies, University of Oslo, Norway, John Braithwaite, PhD, Professor, Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia and J.P. Moloney, MPhil, Health Policy Consultant, Melbourne, Australia

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'This well-researched book explains in plain language what pharmaceutical companies want and what they claim to desire - two very different things. Covering topics ranging from falsified data to misleading advertising. Dukes, Braithwaite, and Moloney reveal how Big Pharma lines its pockets and those of its shareholders by manipulating virtually every aspect of drug manufacturing and marketing. This is essential, thorough, and balanced information for anyone in health care, life science, or the drug manufacturing industry.'

Innehållsförteckning

Contents: Essay Part I: Setting the Scene Introduction Part II: A View of Rights and Wrongs 1. Creating a Medicine: Why, How and How Not 2. Safe, Unsafe and Improper Manufacturing Practices 3. Aggressive or Misleading Promotion 4. The Dark Art of Manipulation: The Industry and its Puppets 5. Corruption, Counterfeiting and Fraud 6. Prices, Monopolies, Abuses and the Law Part III: Transforming the Way Ahead 7. A Criminological Perspective on a Worsening Crisis 8. Positive Regulation: The Complementary Role of Supports and Sanctions 9. A Responsive Criminal Law of Pharmaceuticals 10. Privatising Enforcement 11. A New Capitalism: A New Drug Diplomacy Index