Howard Brody

Hooked

Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the controversial relationship between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry, identifies the ethical tensions and controversies, and proposes numerous reforms both for medicine's own professional integrity and for effective public regulation of the industry.

Produktdetails

• Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 619g
• ISBN-13: 9780742552197
• ISBN-10: 0742552195
• Artikelnr.: 23353745

Autorenporträt

Howard Brody is professor and director for the Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Brody was University Distinguished Professor of family practice, and philosophy at Michigan State University, where he also sat on the faculty of the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences; he served as director of the Center from 1985-2000. Dr. Brody completed his residency in family practice at the University of Virginia Medical Center. He received his MD from the College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, in 1976, and his PhD in Philosophy, also from Michigan State University, in 1977. He currently sits on the board of the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities, and specializes in ethics and the doctor-patient relationship. He has authored five books, among them Stories of Sickness (2002) and The Placebo Response: How You Can Release the Body's Inner Pharmacy for Better Health (2000). For up-to-date news about the issues covered in Hooked, visit Dr. Brody's new blog.