Pharmaphobia : how the conflict of interest myth undermines American medical Innovation /
Thomas P. Stossel.
- p. ; cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The stakes -- A practitioner's history of medical innovation -- Enter the conflict-of-interest mania -- The mania mongers -- Abusing evidence -- Bad policy process -- Flawed and damaging policies -- Misunderstanding innovation -- Economic illiteracy -- Misplaced criticism of incremental innovation -- Rushing to judgment with product safety alarms -- Demonizing marketing is false advertising -- The 'gift' smoke screen -- The lawyers' ball -- The price we pay -- What is to be done?
9781442244627 (cloth : alk. paper)
2014042834
Medical care--United States. Inventions--United States. Conflict of interests--United States. Medical care, Cost of--United States.