Ethics and the Pharmaceutical Industry

These papers by doctors, scholars, industry executives, and NGO representatives debate ethics in the pharmaceutical industry.

Charting a sustainable path for the 21st century pharmaceutical industry Michael A. Santoro; Part I. Profits, Patients' Rights, and Scientific Progress: The Ethics of Clinical Research Conducted in Private Enterprises: 1. Drug research: between ethical demands and economic constraints Jurgen Drews; 2. Emerging international norms for clinical testing: good clinical trial practice Juhana E. Idanpaan-Heikkila and Sev S. Fluss; 3. The regulatory and ethical challenges of pediatric research M. Dianne Murphy and Sara F. Goldkind; 4. Including children in research: participation or exploitation? Robert M. Nelson; 5. Racial and ethnic inclusiveness in clinical trials Valentine J. Burroughs; 6. The rights of patients to participate in clinical trials Glenna Crooks; 7. How should government regulate stem-cell research? Perspectives of a scientist-legislator The Hon. Rush Holt; Part II. Marketing and the Efficient Utilization of Healthcare Resources: Ethical and Public Policy Challenges: 8. Ethics and prescribing: the clinician's perspective Charles L. Bardes; 9. Direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs: a policy dilemma Meredith B. Rosenthal and Julie M. Donohue; 10. Regulation of prescription drug promotion Thomas Abrams; 11. Off-label communications in marketing prescription drugs Scott D. Danzis; 12. The need for better health information: advancing the informed patient in Europe Don E. Detmer, Peter Singleton and Scott C. Ratzan; 13. Who should get access to which drugs? An ethical template for pharmacy benefits Norman Daniels, James E. Sabin and J. Russell Teagarden; 14. The application of cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis to pharmaceuticals Joel Hay; Part III. Patents, Pricing, and Equal Access: 15. Intellectual property rights, access to life-enhancing drugs, and corporate moral responsibilities Patricia H. Werhane and Michael Gorman; 16. A future agenda for government-industry relations William Weldon; 17. AIDS activism and the pharmaceutical industry Martin Delaney; 18. The campaign against innovation Sidney Taurel; 19. Third world perspectives on global pharmaceutical access James Thuo Gathii; 20. The promise of vaccines and the influenza shortage of 2004: public and private partnerships Gary R. Noble; Part IV. Charting a Sustainable Path for the 21st Century: 21. Evolving approaches to healthcare challenges Thomas M. Gorrie; 22. Property rights in crisis: managers and rescue Nien-he Hsieh; 23. Blurring the lines: public and private partnerships addressing global health William Foege; 24. Renegotiating the grand bargain: balancing prices, profits, people, and principles Greg Koski.