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Abraham, John and Davis, Courtney (2007) Interpellative sociology of pharmaceuticals: problems and challenges for innovation and regulation in the 21st century. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 19 (3). pp. 387-402. ISSN 0953-7325
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This paper develops a framework with which to interrogate how well pharmaceutical innovation and regulation are performing to produce drugs that improve health. That framework comprises five key dimensions: therapeutic advance of drug product innovations; safety standards in drug testing; use of surrogate measures of clinical benefit; independence of regulatory agencies; and public access to regulatory science. It is concluded that: more demanding regulatory intervention is required in order to increase the proportion of drug innovation that actually offers therapeutic benefits over existing products; drug regulatory agencies need much greater independence from the pharmaceutical industry; the erosion of safety standards since 1990 needs to be reversed; accelerated approvals of drugs based on surrogate, rather than clinical endpoints, require much greater critical attention; and much more extensive public access to regulatory science is required in order for regulatory decision-making to be thoroughly accountable to the public and the wider scientific community.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Informed by ESRC-funded international empirical research (ESRC Ref L218252001), this article proposes a new sociological approach to technological innovation and regulation by going beyond descriptive accounts of how stakeholders have `constructed their worlds' to interrogate how those constructions compare with the publicly declared goals and rationales for pharmaceutical innovation and regulation. Authors' contribution was equal in all respects. |
| Schools and Departments: | School of Law, Politics and Sociology > Sociology |
| Depositing User: | John Abraham |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Feb 2012 20:11 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Mar 2012 15:36 |
| URI: | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/24604 |