SOC 7108 Chapter Notes - Chapter 32: The Planners, Pharmacology, Disease Mongering

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 7108
• Professor: Loes Knaapen

Document Summary

Pharmaceutical companies perform/sponsor significant amounts of medical research, analyses such as clinical trials and reviews. While they recognized the value of scientific journals that report its research, interests have increased efforts to systematically treat research as a resource that needs to be carefully developed and deployed to affect the opinions of researchers and doctors. Most is handled by contract research organizations (cros) in which the data produced is analyzed by staticians part of pharmaceutical companies. The work of reviewers is rarely acknowledged even sponsorship matters. For this particular reason, publication planning is seen as ghost management of medical research and publication a major activity among 50 firms with up to 40% ghost managed for publications. To gain the most commercial value from research, papers that are published are written. The other similar organization is tippa that also has annual meetings and common.