All gifts large and small: toward an understanding of the ethics of pharmaceutical industry gift-giving
Item Type
Language
English
Abstract
Much attention has been focused in recent years on the ethical acceptability of physicians receiving gifts from drug companies. Professional guidelines recognize industry gifts as a conflict of interest and establish thresholds prohibiting the exchange of large gifts while expressly allowing for the exchange of small gifts such as pens, note pads, and coffee. Considerable evidence from the social sciences suggests that gifts of negligible value can influence the behavior of the recipient in ways the recipient does not always realize. Policies and guidelines that rely on arbitrary value limits for gift-giving or receipt should be reevaluated.
Subject
Humans
Conflict of Interest
Drug Industry
United States
Disclosure
Practice Patterns, Physicians'
Gift Giving
Physicians
American Medical Association
Health Care and Public Health
Interpersonal Relations
Marketing of Health Services
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
Social Behavior
Social Control, Formal
Publication Title
Publication Year
2003
Publication Date
2003
Journal abreviation
Am J Bioeth
Source
PMID: 14594489PubMed
License
ISSN
1536-0075
Link Attachment
Physical Description
vol. 3, n. 3, pp. 39-46
Short Title
All gifts large and small