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'...combines a devastating critique of the pervasive harms of patent-driven medical research by the pharmaceutical industry with a compelling account of an alternative... - Erik Olin Wright, Vilas Distinguished Professor, Wisconsin Past-President, American Sociological Association ...a bright light on a remarkable approach to conducting pharmacological research in the public interest...research motivated by a social mission centered on compassion for and responsibility to the vulnerable, sick and suffering. - Arthur L. Caplan, Mitty Professor of Bioethics, New York University

'...combines a devastating critique of the pervasive harms of patent-driven medical research by the pharmaceutical industry with a compelling account of an alternative... - Erik Olin Wright, Vilas Distinguished Professor, Wisconsin Past-President, American Sociological Association .. .a bright light on a remarkable approach to conducting pharmacological research in the public interest...research motivated by a social mission centered on compassion for and responsibility to the vulnerable, sick and suffering. - Arthur L. Caplan, Mitty Professor of Bioethics, New York University

Combines a devastating critique of the pervasive harms of patent-driven medical research by the pharmaceutical industry with a compelling account of an alternative. - Erik Olin Wright, Vilas Distinguished Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and Past President, American Sociological Association A bright light on a remarkable approach to conducting pharmacological research in the public interest...research motivated by a social mission centered on compassion for and responsibility to the vulnerable, sick and suffering. - Arthur L. Caplan, Mitty Professor of Bioethics, New York University, USA

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Donald W. Light is Professor of Comparative Health Policy at Rowan University, USA and has published widely in major medical and sociological journals on ethical as well as sociological issues. Recently, he served as the Lokey Visiting Professor at Stanford University, USA and as a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, USA.   Antonio Maturo is Associate Professor of Sociology of Health at Bologna University, Italy and Visiting Professor at Brown University, USA. He has published several books in Italian and he has edited The Medicalization of Life (2009, with P. Conrad) and The Medicine of Emotions and Cognitions (2012, with K. Barker).

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