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Marcia Angell

Marcia Angell, Senior Lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, is former Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and author of The Truth About the Drug Companies.

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Big Pharma, Bad Medicine

Relationships between academic institutions and biotechnology companies create conflicts of interest that undermine the goals of academic medicine and harm the public.

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Response: A Question of Commitments — Final Response

The comments of David Bollier, Adriane Fugh-Berman, Howard Brody, Dan Brock, and Suzanne Gordon all add important insights to the discussion, while generally supporting the view that financial conflicts of interest are...
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Response: Public Health

In his thoughtful and persuasive essay, David Bollier makes the case that not everything in American life should be subject to private markets, if only because the raw materials are owned by...
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Response: Pockets of Poverty

Daniels, Kennedy, and Kawachi have written an important and deeply humane essay. They take as their starting point the well-known observation that wealthier populations are on average healthier and that the more...
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