Managing Nonfinancial Conflict of Interest: How the "New McCarthyism" Could Work

American Journal of Bioethics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 42-44

  Tsai, Alexander C ^a  

^a HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFLICT OF INTEREST; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NOTE; RESEARCH; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; STANDARD;

CONFLICT OF INTEREST; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; RESEARCH; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 79952470705     PISSN: 15265161     EISSN: 15360075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2010.534531     Document Type: Article

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