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Howard Brody

Howard Brody, John P. McGovern Centennial Chair at the University of Texas Medical Branch, is author of Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry.

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Marcia Angell summarizes the many negative influences that pharmaceutical-industry marketing now exerts over medicine. She appropriately focuses attention less on industry wrongdoing and more on how medicine itself acquiesces in a system...
Howard Brody

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