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Summary. This piece explores the similarities and differences between the ethical and regulatory issues raised by direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs and those raised by the promotion of foods for their purported health-benefits.
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Summary. This essay explores the ethical issues raised by the promotion of foods for their purported health benefits, and compares the U.S. and E.U. regulatory frameworks governing such claims.
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Summary. This article outlines the systemic ethical implications of public-private partnerships with the food and soda industry—including research agenda distortion and framing effects (such as the characterization of obesity primarily as a problem of individual behavior, and the minimization or neglect of food systems and the role of powerful corporate actors in those systems).
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Summary. This essay explores how oil and gas companies exploit secret settlements with families harmed by fracking in order to suppress evidence of the harmful effects of their commercial practices.
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Summary. This piece challenges the claim that public health agencies should partner with food companies because they have a “shared responsibility” to address obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases. Governments should discharge their responsibilities, this piece argues, by effectively regulating industry actors, rather than collaborating with them.
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Summary. This piece raises the concern that secret settlements with corporate actors (such as oil and gas companies engaged in fracking) may conceal serious threats to public health.
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Summary. This article analyzes in detail the webs of relationships that opioid companies created with doctors, professional associations, universities, academic medical centers, and public health NGOs. The article shows how these relationships exacerbated the opioid crisis, and argues that the default relationship with opioid companies should be separation, not collaboration.
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Summary. This piece argues that, by framing individuals as the source of public health problems, nudging tends to serve the commercial interests of powerful corporate actors.
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Summary. This article critically examines the social science literature on the disclosure of financial conflicts of interest, and argues that disclosure illuminates but does not eliminate corporate influence. To eliminate such influence, other structural reforms are necessary.
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Summary. This piece argues that, while considerable attention has been paid to financial conflicts of interest involving the pharmaceutical industry, conflicts involving the food and soda industries have been neglected. Such conflicts call for urgent attention from both scholars and policymakers.