The moral economy of the drug company-medical scientist collaboration in interwar America.
This paper explores the exchange relationships underlying collaborations between pharmaceutical companies and preclinical (laboratory-based) researchers, in universities and similar contexts, during the interwar period. It also examines the arguments advanced to justify such collaborations in particular contexts as a way of investigating the perceived costs and benefits, especially among the academic parties in these collaborations, and the way these collaborations were regarded in the US biomedical research community.
School of History and Philosophy of Science, LG 18 Morven Brown Bldg, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia. Nicolas.Rasmussen@unsw.edu.au
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D004345:Drug Industry / Q000266:history*; D004467:Economics / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D007753:Laboratories / Q000266:history*; D017056:Medical Laboratory Personnel / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States