Practicing research ethics: Private-sector physicians & pharmaceutical clinical trials
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Practicing research ethics: private-sector physicians & pharmaceutical clinical trials.
This paper focuses on constructions of research ethics by primary care physicians in the USA as they engage in contract research for the pharmaceutical industry. Drawing first on historical studies of physicians as investigators and then on 12 months of qualitative fieldwork in the Southwestern US, this paper analyzes the shifting, contextualized ethics that shape physicians' relationships with...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Social Science & Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0277-9536
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.02.001