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The ethics of drug development and promotion: the need for a wider viewHoward Brody
Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, TX 77555 1311, USA
Med Care 50:910-2. 2012..Besides medical professionalism, the ethics of the clinical therapeutic relationship, ethics of public health, and business ethics all provide additional insights...- On talking and touching in medicineHoward Brody
Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555 1311, USA
J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother 26:165-6. 2012Dr. Howard Brody, a leader in bioethics and medical humanities, describes how human touch impacts pain management outcomes... 
The placebo phenomenon: implications for the ethics of shared decision-makingHoward Brody
Institute for the Medical Humanities and Department of Family Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
J Gen Intern Med 27:739-42. 2012..Several practical strategies mitigate this tension and promote respect for autonomous decision-making while still utilizing the therapeutic potential of SDM...- BiDil: assessing a race-based pharmaceuticalHoward Brody
Department of Family Practice and the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
Ann Fam Med 4:556-60. 2006..Primary care physicians should be aware of possible generic equivalents that will affect the availability of this drug for low-income or uninsured patients... 
Transparency and self-censorship in shared decision-makingHoward Brody
Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555-1311, USA
Am J Bioeth 7:44-6. 2007- A headache at the end of the dayHoward Brody
Department of Family Practice, Michigan, State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
Ann Fam Med 5:81-3. 2007.... - Defining the medical humanities: three conceptions and three narrativesHoward Brody
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
J Med Humanit 32:1-7. 2011..Getting clearer on a definition of 'medical humanities' is practically important if this field is to take its rightful place within health professions education and practice... - Artificial nutrition and hydration: the evolution of ethics, evidence, and policyHoward Brody
Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, TX 77555 1311, USA
J Gen Intern Med 26:1053-8. 2011..The debate over use of artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) in terminal illness, including advanced dementia, remains contentious despite extensive ethical and empirical investigation... - Professional medical organizations and commercial conflicts of interest: ethical issuesHoward Brody
Institute for the Medical Humanities and Department of Family Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555 1311, USA
Ann Fam Med 8:354-8. 2010..Medical organizations, as the public face of medicine and as formulator of codes of ethics for their physician members, have special obligations to adhere to high ethical standards... - The pharmacist's personal and professional integrityHoward Brody
Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555-1311, USA
Am J Bioeth 7:16-7. 2007 - Professionally responsible malpractice reformHoward Brody
Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX 77555 1311, USA
J Gen Intern Med 26:806-9. 2011..Such programs should be implemented more generally, and state laws enacted to facilitate them... - Clarifying conflict of interestHoward Brody
University of Texas Medical Branch, Institute for the Medical Humanities, Galveston, TX 77555 1311, USA
Am J Bioeth 11:23-8. 2011..Clarifying "conflict of interest" is important if we are eventually going to develop productive modes of engagement between medicine and for-profit industry that avoid the serious ethical pitfalls now in evidence... - The inverse benefit law: how drug marketing undermines patient safety and public healthHoward Brody
Institute for the Medical Humanities, Department of Family Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555 1311, USA
Am J Public Health 101:399-404. 2011..The inverse benefit law highlights the need for comparative effectiveness research and other reforms to improve evidence-based prescribing... - Are there three or four distinct types of medical practice?Howard Brody
Michigan State University, Michigan, USA
Am J Bioeth 6:51-3; discussion W42-5. 2006 - The clinician-investigator: unavoidable but manageable tensionHoward Brody
Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Kennedy Inst Ethics J 13:329-46. 2003..The difference position provides a sound ethical framework within which to manage those tensions, while the similarity position is unsatisfactory because it seeks to deny the existence of the tensions... - The welcome reassessment of research ethics: is "undue inducement" suspect?Howard Brody
Michigan State University, USA
Am J Bioeth 5:15-6. 2005 - Pens and other pharmaceutical industry giftsHoward Brody
Michigan State University, USA
Am J Bioeth 3:58-60. 2003 - Shared decision making and determining decision-making capacityHoward Brody
Department of Family Practice, B 100 Clinical Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Prim Care 32:645-58, vi. 2005..An ethical challenge in the care of older patients who have diminished capacity is to show respect for their previously expressed wishes and for their present, experienced quality of life... - Patient ethics and evidence-based medicine--the good healthcare citizenHoward Brody
Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
Camb Q Healthc Ethics 14:141-6. 2005 - Should a clinical trial coordinator blow the whistle?Howard Brody
Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
Med Ethics (Burlingt Mass) 11:3, 11. 2004 - Spirituality: respect but don't revealDaniel S Goldberg
University of Texas Medical Branch, TX, USA
Am J Bioeth 7:21-2. 2007 - Defensive medicine, cost containment, and reformLaura D Hermer
Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX 77555 1311, USA
J Gen Intern Med 25:470-3. 2010..These reforms may, nevertheless, be necessary to persuade physicians to accept necessary changes in their practice patterns as part of the larger changes to the health care payment and delivery systems that cost containment requires... - Family medicine, the physician-patient relationship, and patient-centered careHoward Brody
Michigan State University, USA
Am J Bioeth 6:38-9. 2006 - The changing face of chronic illness management in primary care: a qualitative study of underlying influences and unintended outcomesLinda M Hunt
Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Ann Fam Med 10:452-60. 2012..Recently, there has been dramatic increase in the diagnosis and pharmaceutical management of common chronic illnesses. Using qualitative data collected in primary care clinics, we assessed how these trends play out in clinical care... - The company we keep: why physicians should refuse to see pharmaceutical representativesHoward Brody
Department of Family Practice and Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824, USA
Ann Fam Med 3:82-5. 2005..Physicians ought to refuse to visit with representatives as a matter of both professional integrity and sensible time management... - Evidence-based medicine: watching out for its friendsHoward Brody
Department of Family Practice, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824, and Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Perspect Biol Med 48:570-84. 2005.... - Pharmaceutical industry financial support for medical education: benefit, or undue influence?Howard Brody
Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA
J Law Med Ethics 37:451-60, 396. 2009..Critics counter that early indicators of improvement are lacking... - Medicine's duty to treat pandemic illness: solidarity and vulnerabilityHoward Brody
Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA
Hastings Cent Rep 39:40-8. 2009..An adequate account must be deeper and broader: it must set the professional duty alongside other individual commitments and broader social values... - Confronting a colleague who covers up a medical errorHoward Brody
Michigan State University, Department of Family Practice, East Lansing, USA
Am Fam Physician 73:1272, 1274. 2006 - A matter of influenceHoward Brody
Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 21:232-4. 2002 - How virtue ethics informs medical professionalismSusan D McCammon
Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, TX 77555 0521, USA
HEC Forum 24:257-72. 2012..As a further demonstration of how best to approach a lifelong practice of medical virtue, we will examine altruism as a mean between the extremes of self-sacrifice and selfishness... - Addressing spiritual concerns in family medicine: a team approachHoward Brody
Department of Family Practice, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Am Board Fam Pract 17:201-6. 2004..The case report includes the patient's own description of his experience with spirituality and spiritual counseling, as well as the perspectives of the spiritual counselor... - What makes placebo-controlled trials unethical?Franklin G Miller
National Institutes of Health
Am J Bioeth 2:3-9. 2002..Placebo controls are ethically justifiable when they are supported by sound methodological considerations and their use does not expose research participants to excessive risks of harm... - A critique of clinical equipoise. Therapeutic misconception in the ethics of clinical trialsFranklin G Miller
Hastings Cent Rep 33:19-28. 2003..quot;Clinical equipoise" is necessary. But this perspective is flawed. The ethics of research and of therapy are fundamentally different, and clinical equipoise should be abandoned... - Moving beyond cultural stereotypes in end-of-life decision makingHoward Brody
Am Fam Physician 71:429-30. 2005 - The boy who cried unicorn: a parableJerome R Hoffman
Los Angeles Emergency Medicine Center, University of California, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 46:93. 2005 - Enhancement technologies and professional integrityFranklin G Miller
National Institutes of Health, USA
Am J Bioeth 5:15-7; discussion W4-9. 2005 - Ask your doctor if this genetic test is right for youHoward Brody
Am J Bioeth 8:1-2. 2008 - Are pay-for-performance programs a threat to medical professionalism?Howard Brody
Ann Intern Med 148:630; author reply 630-1. 2008 - Academic medical centers and conflicts of interestHoward Brody
JAMA 295:2848; author reply 2848-9. 2006 - Clinical equipoise and the incoherence of research ethicsFranklin G Miller
Department of Clinical Bioethics Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 1156, USA
J Med Philos 32:151-65. 2007..In the final sections of the article, we elaborate on the non-exploitation framework for the ethics clinical research and indicate issues that warrant further inquiry...