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The pharmaceutical industry develops, manufactures, and sells drugs. Defining illness is not its mission. Generally, the medications produced by drug companies target diseases that have been defined previously by the medical profession. However, there are several indirect ways in which the industry contributes to the definition of illness.
- Elizabeth A. Kitsis
- 2011
May 8, 2013 · Drugs for Life complements these works by adding another analytical framework to understand the role of pharmaceutical companies, their marketing departments, and their products in shaping health and illness. Dumit is primarily concerned with the transformation of the clinical trial into a marketing tool; one that is controlled almost exclusively by companies because of the expense associated ...
- Jill A. Fisher
- 2013
Dec 1, 2011 · Affiliation 1 Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York.; PMID: 23137431 DOI: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2011.13.12.oped1-1112
Dec 1, 2011 · The pharmaceutical industry's influence on the process of defining illness can be positive, as when drug companies increase public awareness of disease and develop effective therapies, or negative, if it pushes the boundaries of illness too far in pursuit of profit. The pharmaceutical industry's influence on the process of defining illness can be positive, as when drug companies increase ...
- Introduction
- Psychopharmacology in Context
- Biological Reductionism
- Health Systems Financing
- Reform
Medications, like all interventions, shape the ways in which physicians see disease and their roles as healers. Across medical specialties, pharmaceuticals influence the way physicians prioritize drug targets and biomedical (ie, biological and physiological) narratives of illness, shape clinical practice and health care systems, and obscure social ...
When Nobel Laureate Paul Ehrlich coined the phrase magic bullet as he searched for a specific drug to kill the syphilis spirochete in the early 1900s, he expressed our modern ideal of disease and its treatment, in which the disease entity is biologically identifiable and the treatment directly and specifically targets the pathogen or illness proces...
Historical misattribution of deinstitutionalization to the emergence of psychotropic drugs provides a window on a larger transformation of American medicine in which our therapeutics—largely in the form of pharmaceuticals and biologics—have come to define our understanding of illness. In 1976, sociologist Nicholas Jewson described the evolution of ...
Biological therapeutics have come not only to define our understanding of illness and treatment, but also to be encoded in our medical economy, circumscribing physicians’ work and health care systems’ priorities. Medical reimbursement constructs, such as medical necessity determinations, Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes, and relative val...
The belief (especially among psychiatrists) that antipsychotic drugs emptied the state hospitals helped make that historical moment more palatable. As the narrative went, state hospital closures were ushered in by scientific advancements. The quick cures that were envisioned, unfortunately, have not come to fruition, nor have pharmaceuticals compre...
- Enrico G. Castillo, Joel Tupper Braslow
- 2021
6 days ago · The continual evolution and advancement of the pharmaceutical industry is fundamental in the control and elimination of disease around the world. The following sections provide a detailed explanation of the progression of drug discovery and development throughout history, the process of drug development in the modern pharmaceutical industry, and the procedures that are followed to ensure the ...
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Mar 16, 2006 · The pharmaceutical industry is a business. This banal and obvious fact needs emphasising because it is often forgotten or overlooked by both supporters and critics of the industry's ethos and activities. And the industry itself is happy to downplay its true motivations where this suits the circumstances. It can, for example, pose instead as educator, charity supporter, health service provider ...
