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Dan W. Brock

Dan W. Brock is Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School and coauthor, most recently, of From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice.

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Any company making a product for sale must and does engage in marketing practices to support the sale of that product. There is little that “sells itself” in the marketplace. So pharmaceutical...
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