Healy David
Cardiff University, Hergest Unit, Wales LL57 2PW, United Kingdom.
Epidemiol Psichiatr Soc. 2007 Jul-Sep;16(3):205-11.
There has been recent concern about interactions between academia and the pharmaceutical industry. This article seeks to explore the basis for the current sense of crisis.
The approach taken is a historical one, outlining the origins of the crisis.
The analysis outlines the roles that brands, patents, and the control of the scientific literature play in the current marketing of psychotropic drugs, and describes the processes of guideline capture and brand fascism.
The analysis makes it difficult to see current interactions between industry and academia as anything but bad for academia. One option that might restore some balance would be to restrict scientific meetings and journals to communications that made all relevant scientific data available, excluding exercises that restrict access to data.
近期学术界与制药行业之间的互动引发了关注。本文旨在探究当前危机感的根源。
采用历史研究方法,概述危机的起源。
分析概述了品牌、专利及科学文献控制在当前精神药物营销中所起的作用,并描述了指南俘获和品牌法西斯主义的过程。
该分析表明,当前行业与学术界之间的互动对学术界而言似乎毫无益处。恢复某种平衡的一个选择可能是,将科学会议和期刊限制为能提供所有相关科学数据的交流,不包括限制数据获取的活动。