From Lydia Pinkham to Bob Dole: What the changing face of direct-to-consumer drug advertising reveals about the professionalism of medicine

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 141-158

  Pinkus, Rosa Lynn ^a  

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Indexed keywords

DRUG;

ADVERTIZING; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CONSUMER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG INDUSTRY; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PUBLIC RELATIONS; PUBLISHING; QUACKERY; SOCIOLOGY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADVERTISING; AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; DRUG INDUSTRY; ETHICS, MEDICAL; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; JOURNALISM; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY; QUACKERY; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0036594807     PISSN: 10546863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/ken.2002.0013     Document Type: Article

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