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What is the proposed conceptualization of interests in the article?
What is the proposed conceptualization of interests in the article?
A realist conceptualization of interests is proposed in opposition to the fashionable view that interests, objectivity and reality are merely social constructs.
How are the objective interests of pharmaceutical companies and patients/public health characterized?
How are the objective interests of pharmaceutical companies and patients/public health characterized?
The objective interests of pharmaceutical companies are in profit-maximization, while the objective interests of patients/public health are in the optimization of drugs’ benefit-risk ratios.
What is the relationship between the interests of pharmaceutical companies and pharmaceutical regulation?
What is the relationship between the interests of pharmaceutical companies and pharmaceutical regulation?
The relationship between the interests of pharmaceutical companies and pharmaceutical regulation is best characterized by ‘neo-liberal corporate bias’ at the macro- and meso-levels.
How is bias from commercial interests manifested at the micro-social level of science-based pharmaceutical testing and regulatory decision making?
How is bias from commercial interests manifested at the micro-social level of science-based pharmaceutical testing and regulatory decision making?
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What have commercial interests been shown to bias science away from, and in favor of?
What have commercial interests been shown to bias science away from, and in favor of?
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