Healthy Skepticism Library item: 15098

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Publication type: Journal Article

Rasmussen N.
The Moral Economy of the Drug Company–Medical Scientist Collaboration in Interwar America
Social Studies of Science 2004; 34:(2):161-185
http://sss.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/34/2/161

Abstract:

This paper explores the exchange relationships underlying collaborations between pharmaceutical companies and preclinical (laboratory-based) researchers, in universities and similar contexts, during the interwar period. It also examines the arguments advanced to justify such collaborations in particular contexts as a way of investigating the perceived costs and benefits, especially among the academic parties in these collaborations, and the way these collaborations were regarded in the US biomedical research community.

Keywords:
biochemistry • endocrinology • intellectual property • pharmaceuticals • vitamins