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References and publications on pharmaceutical promotion. For a crash-course overview of a particular topic, check out Mini-Syllabi, manageable sets of articles on a range of issues.
Mini-Syllabi:
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Your Friendly Drug Rep
Why You Get Samples
Industry Sponsored Research
Disease Mongering
Direct to Consumer (DTC) Promotion
Media
Other Publications
Books We Like
Slide Shows:
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Persuading Prescribers Wilson Lecutureship given by Dr. Fugh-Berman in Albuquerque on September 29, 2006.
New Drugs from Old: Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin, Vol 44 No. 10 Oct 2006 presented at the Medical Journal Club, Morriston Hospital by Scott Pegler, Pharmacist at the National Health Service (UK) on November 20, 2006.
Separating the Wheat From the Chaff: Obtaining Useful Information from Pharmaceutical Representatives David C. Slawson and Allen F. Shaughnessy. From the University of Virginia and Tufts University Two-Day Information Mastery Course, module 12. University of Virginia Health System, Department of Family Medicine
Other Publications
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Lifting the Veil of ecrecy: Corporate Support for Health and Environmental Professional Associations, Charities, and Industry Front Groups. A 2003 report from Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
Drug promotion: what we know, what we have yet to learn: Reviews of materials in the WHO/HAI database on drug promotion EDM Research Series no. 32 (102 pages)
More at WHO site Selection and Rational Use of Medicines. Norris P, Herxheimer A, Lexchin J, Mansfield P. World Health Organization (WHO) and Health Action International (HAI), 2004.
(Free paper copy available on request from WHO: e-mail edmdoccentre@who.int)
Educational Initiatives For Medical and Pharmacy Students About Drug Promotion: an International Cross-sectional Survey (EDM Research Series no. 36, pdf 3.75 MB). Mintzes B. World Health Organization (WHO) and Health Action International (HAI), 2005.
More at WHO site Selection and Rational Use of Medicines.
(Free paper copy available on request from WHO: e-mail edmdoccentre@who.int)
Blurring the Boundaries. Mintzes B. Health Action International (HAI).
Branding the Cure. Consumers International.
Turning Medicine Into Snake Oil: How Pharmaceutical Marketers Put Patients At Risk. New Jersey Public Interest Research Group Law and Policy Center. May 2006.
Selected documents on the marketing of Vioxx, for a Congressional hearing held on May 05, 2005 by the Committee on Government Reform, Minority Office, on The roles of the FDA and pharmaceutical companies in ensuring the safety of approved drugs, like Vioxx
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Guidance for Industry on Industry-Supported Scientific and Educational Activities. Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 232 / Wednesday, December 3, 1997 / Notices/64093. Additional Guidances from CDER.
Office of the Inspector General has the OIG Compliance Program Guidance for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers. Federal Register / Vol. 68, No. 86 / Monday, May 5, 2003 / Notices / 23731.
Getting Doctors to Say Yes to Drugs: The Cost and Quality Impact of Drug Company Marketing to Physicians. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. Millenson, ML. Accessed September 2, 2006.
Profiting from Pain: Where Prescription Dollars Go. July 2002. Families USA Publication 02-105. More at Families USA Prescription Drug Publications.
Big Pharma Behaving Badly: A Survey of Selected Class Action Lawsuits Against Drug Companies, Fourth Edition. January 2005. Prepared for Families USA by Patrick Cafferty, Miller Faucher, and Cafferty, LLP. More at Families USA Prescription Drug Publications.
CSE’s White Paper on Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications. Editorial Policy Committee (2005-2006), Council of Science Editors (CSE). 2006.
Kaiser Family Foundation National Survey of Physicians Part II: Doctors and Prescription Drugs,March 2002. Additional Findings. were released in 2006.
Books We Like:
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Abramson, John. Overdo$ed America: the broken promise of American medicine. New York, NY. Harper Collins, 2004.
Angell, Marcia. The truth about the drug companies: how they deceive us and what to do about it. New York, NY. Random House, 2004.
Avorn, Jerry. Powerful medicines: the benefits, risks, and costs of prescription drugs. New York, NY. Knopf, 2004.:
David, Healy. Let them eat Prozac: the unhealthy relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and depression. New York, NY. New York University Press, 2004.
David, Healy. The antidepressant era. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press, 1997.
Elliott, Carl. Better than well: American medicine meets the American dream. New York, NY. W.W. Norton, 2003.
Fox, Stephen R. The mirror makers: a history of American advertising and its creators. New York, NY. Morrow, 1984.
Goozner, Merrill. The $800 million pill: the truth behind the cost of new drugs. Berkeley, CA. University of California Press, 2004.
Kassirer, Jerome P. On the take: how America's complicity with big business can endanger your health. New York, NY. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Kilbourne, Jean. Can't buy my love: how advertising changes the way we think and feel. New York, NY. Simon & Schuster, 1999.
Kilbourne, Jean. Deadly persuasion: why women and girls must fight the addictive power of advertising. New York, NY. Free Press, 1999.
Moynihan, Ray . Selling Sickness: how the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies are turning us all into patients. New York, NY. Nation Books, 2005.
Mundy, Alicia. Dispensing with the truth: the victims, the drug companies, and the dramatic story behind the battle over Fen-Phen. New York, NY. St. Martin's Press, 2001.
Payer, Lynn. Medicine and culture: varieties of treatment in the United States, England, West Germany, and France. New York, NY. Henry Holt and Company, 1996.
Reidy, Jamie. Hard Sell: the evolution of a Viagra Salesman. Kansas City, MO. Andrews McMeel, 2005.
Washburn, Jennifer. University, Inc.: the corporate corruption of American higher education. New York, NY. Basic Books, 2005.
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