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THEORETICAL MEDICINE AND BIOETHICS
Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages 115-139Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11017-005-5289-5
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business ethics; conflicts of interest; corporate responsibility; pharmaceutical companies; research ethics; scientific integrity
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Pharmaceutical companies are major sponsors of biomedical research. Most scholars and policymakers focus their attention on government and academic oversight activities, however. In this article, I consider the role of pharmaceutical companies' internal ethics statements in guiding decisions about corporate research and development (R&D). I review materials from drug company websites and contributions from the business and medical ethics literature that address ethical responsibilities of businesses in general and pharmaceutical companies in particular. I discuss positive and negative uses of pharmaceutical companies' ethics materials and describe shortcomings in the companies' existing ethics programs. To guide employees and reassure outsiders, companies must add rigor, independence, and transparency to their R&D ethics programs.
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