Healthy Skepticism Library item: 1246
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Publication type: Journal Article
Baker E, Newnes C, Myatt H.
Drug companies and clinical psychology.
Ethical Hum Sci Serv 2003 Fal; 5:(3):247-53
Abstract:
This article argues that the pharmaceutical industry uses psychological techniques focusing on social conditioning, shame, and guilt to sell its concepts and products to an ever-widening group of health care professionals. Clinical psychology shows signs of both joining and resisting this process.
Keywords:
Advertising
Conflict of Interest
Drug Industry*/economics
Drug Industry*/ethics
Financial Support
Gift Giving/ethics*
Great Britain
Humans
Interprofessional Relations/ethics*
Marketing/ethics
Marketing of Health Services/ethics*
Nurses
Persuasive Communication*
Psychiatric Nursing
Psychology, Clinical/economics*
Psychology, Clinical/ethics*
Psychotropic Drugs/economics
