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How A Drug Becomes ‘Ethnic’: Law, Commerce, And The Production Of Racial Categories In Medicine, Jonathan Kahn Jan 2004

How A Drug Becomes ‘Ethnic’: Law, Commerce, And The Production Of Racial Categories In Medicine, Jonathan Kahn

Faculty Scholarship

A drug called BiDil is poised to become the first drug ever approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat heart failure in African Americans - and only African Americans. This article explores the story of BiDil and considers some of its broader implications for the use of racial categories in law, medicine, and science. It argues that BiDil is an ethnic drug today as much, if not more because of the interventions of law and commerce as because of any biomedical considerations. The article is, first, a retrospective analysis of how law, commerce, science, and medicine interacted …


Dr. Joseph Rohan Lex, Jr., M.D. Faaem - The Physician-Pharmaceutical Industry Relationship, Joseph Rohan Lex Jr. Jan 2004

Dr. Joseph Rohan Lex, Jr., M.D. Faaem - The Physician-Pharmaceutical Industry Relationship, Joseph Rohan Lex Jr.

Journal of Law and Health

My premise is that physician interactions with marketing representatives result in inevitable and irreconcilable conflicts of interest or the appearance of conflicts of interest. Our patients in medicine are the ultimate losers from such interactions.


Don't Bite The Hand That Provides Life-Saving Drugs: Application Of The Hatch-Waxman And Sherman Acts To The Pharmaceutical Industry And The Detrimental Effects To Future Innovation In Order To Achieve Current Savings For Consumers, Edward J. King Jan 2004

Don't Bite The Hand That Provides Life-Saving Drugs: Application Of The Hatch-Waxman And Sherman Acts To The Pharmaceutical Industry And The Detrimental Effects To Future Innovation In Order To Achieve Current Savings For Consumers, Edward J. King

Villanova Law Review

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