Hooked: How Medicine's Dependence on the Pharmaceutical Industry Undermines Professional Ethics by Howard Brody
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- Pub. Date: January 2007
- 384pp
- Sales Rank: 381,112
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- Pub. Date: January 2007
- Publisher: National Book Network
- Format: Hardcover, 384pp
- Sales Rank: 381,112
- Series: Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities Ser.
- ISBN-13: 9780742552180
- ISBN: 0742552187
Synopsis
For decades, medical professionals have betrayed the public's trust by accepting various benefits from the pharmaceutical industry. Both drug company representatives and doctors employ artful spin to portray this behavior positively to the public, and to themselves. In Hooked, Howard Brody argues that we can neither understand the problem, nor propose helpful solutions until we identify the many levels of activity connecting these purportedly noble industries. We can pass laws and enact regulations, but ultimately the medical profession must take responsibility for its own integrity. Hooked is a wake-up call for anyone expecting high quality, ethical medical care.
Dick Maxwell Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information - Library Journal
The relationship between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry is an ethical minefield. Brody (director, Inst. for the Medical Humanities, Univ. of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston; The Placebo Response) traces the gradual intertwining of the two, showing how it has led to a climate in which research, prescribing practices, government regulation, and even journal articles are influenced by dollars and marketing in ways seldom questioned. From medical school on, he writes, physicians encounter pharmaceutical representatives and receive favors that start small and grow, causing doctors to develop a sense of entitlement. They see others as being compromised by grants, gifts, and other enticements, yet deny that they themselves are influenced. Brody offers suggestions for achieving divestiture rather than continuing to try to manage the status quo. Thoroughly documented, logically structured, and well written, his book offers a good starting point for discussing ethical issues that impact us all. There is some overlap with Leonard J. Weber's Profits Before People?: Ethical Standards and the Marketing of Prescription Drugs, but Brody's work is more focused on medical ethics. Recommended for all medical and public libraries.
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October 25, 2009: Brody has provided an essential reading critique of the pharmaceutical industry. The global medical care system would be far more equitable, efficient and effective if this analysis were studied by policy decision makers and the recommended remedies applied. Brody's review includes the history of how the pharmaceutical industry became so powerful and the medical profession so compliant with the industry's marketing. He details the industry's corruptoin of science and its distortion of the drug research and publication processes. Brody includes a detailed and compeling description of the corrupting influence of the industry on the FDA and gives multiple examples of how our health has been repeatedly endangered as a result with thousands of deaths and injuries. Brody not only describes events but undergirds his arguments and recommendations in a foundation of professional ethics. I highly recommend this book and in my opinion this book is better than several other contemporaneous books about this topic.
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