Healthy Skepticism Library item: 3148

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Publication type: Journal Article

Kass EH.
Seduction in a grand hotel
Reviews of Infectious Diseases 1983; 5:973-974

Abstract:

There is a concern about excessive zeal in pharmaceutical marketing. Reasonable consensus and a voluntary code of ethics are a better approach to deal with this problem than arbitrary rules and restrictive laws. Academic and industrial communities should take a careful look at their own practices and try to assist one another in avoiding the kinds of excess that will inevitably lead to equally excessive restraints, imposed from without.

Keywords:
*editorial/relationship between medical profession and industry/conferences/regulation of promotion/ETHICAL ISSUES IN PROMOTION: LINKS BETWEEN HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND INDUSTRY/INFLUENCE OF PROMOTION: PROFESSIONALISM/REGULATION, CODES, GUIDELINES: HEALTH PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS/REGULATION, CODES, GUIDELINES: INDUSTRY SELF-REGULATION