Health Economists Meet the Fourth Tempter: Drog Dependency and Scientific Discourse

R.G. Evans, M. Barer and S. Morgan

Centre for Health Services and Policy Research from University of British Columbia - Centre for Health Services and Policy Research.

Abstract: Over the past decade, the 'pharmacoeconomics' phenomenon has incited a stream of commentaries about the economic evaluation of drugs, conflicts of interest and ways of retaining respectability for this component of health economics profession. Private coporations now finance so many aspects of health economics, however, that the profession as a whole runs the risk of being co-opted.

Keywords: HEALTH; POLICY (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2000
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