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Main Title Science in the private interest : has the lure of profits corrupted biomedical research? /
Author Krimsky, Sheldon.
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
Year Published 2003
OCLC Number 51342639
ISBN 074251479X
Subjects Medicine--Research--United States--Finance ; Academic-industrial collaboration--United States ; Biotechnology industries--United States ; Biomedical Research--ethics--United States ; Biotechnology--United States ; Conflict of Interest--United States ; Moral Obligations--United States
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ESAM  R854.U5K75 2003 Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA 12/05/2003
Collation xiv, 247 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233) and index.
Contents Notes
Introduction -- Tales of the unholy alliance -- University-industry collaborations -- Knowledge as property -- The changing ethos of academic science -- The redemption of federal advisory committees -- Professors incorporated -- Conflicts of interest in science -- A question of bias -- The scientific journals -- The demise of public science-interest science -- Prospects for a new moral sensibility in academia -- Conclusion: reinvesting in public-interest science.