TY - BOOK AU - Stossel,Thomas P. TI - Pharmaphobia: How the Conflict of Interest Myth Undermines American Medical Innovation SN - 9781442244634 AV - RA418.3.U6 -- .S767 2015eb U1 - 362.10973 PY - 2015/// CY - Blue Ridge Summit PB - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated KW - Social medicine -- United States KW - Medical care -- United States KW - Inventions -- United States KW - Conflict of interests -- United States KW - Product safety -- United States KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: Some Benefits and the Mechanics of Medical Innovation -- 1 The Stakes -- 2 A Practitioner's History of Medical Innovation -- II: Why We Have A Medical Innovation Crisis -- 3 Enter the Conflict-of-Interest Mania -- 4 The Mania Mongers -- III: Why They Are Wrong -- 5 Abusing Evidence -- 6 Bad Policy Process -- 7 Flawed and Damaging Policies -- 8 Misunderstanding Innovation -- 9 Economic Illiteracy -- 10 Misplaced Criticism of Incremental Innovation -- 11 Rushing to Judgment with False Product Safety Alarms -- 12 Demonizing Marketing Is False Advertising -- 13 The Gift Smoke Screen -- 14 The Lawyers' Ball -- IV: The Damage They Do, and How to Stop It -- 15 The Price We Pay -- 16 What Is to Be Done? -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index N2 - While plenty can be said about the dysfunction of our health care system, rarely do business and private players in health care innovation get a good rap. This book takes on skeptics of the partnership between the medical community, political groups, and private businesses, by illustrating how such cooperation can result in world-class innovation and health care delivery UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=2038789 ER -