Healthy Skepticism Library item: 1259

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Publication type: Journal Article

Wazana A, Primeau F.
Ethical considerations in the relationship between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry.
Psychiatr Clin North Am 2002 Sep; 25:(3):647-63,
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12232977

Abstract:

Persuasion, influence, and change are familiar domains in psychiatry. Frequently, therapists attempt to identify and understand the cognitions, affects, and perceptions their patients have developed or acquired and then, by a number of means, trigger therapeutic changes. Whereas they spend much work in the therapeutic setting attempting to delineate the mechanisms that produce such transformations and to influence change, physicians are often in a similar relationship with the pharmaceutical industry. However, in this relationship, they are the recipients of persuasion and influence.

Keywords:
Conflict of Interest Drug Industry/ethics* Ethics, Medical* Humans Physicians* analysis Canada relationship between medical profession and industry bioethics psychiatrists & psychiatry EVALUATION OF PROMOTION: INFLUENCE TECHNIQUES PROMOTION IN SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC AREAS: PSYCHIATRIC DISEASES