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closeTaking responsibility
Posted by plosmedicine on 30 Mar 2009 at 23:52 GMT
Author: 'susanne' 'mccabe'
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E-mail: soostevens@hotmail.com
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Submitted Date: April 12, 2006
Published Date: April 24, 2006
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Surely it is relevant that Iona Heath is Chair of Ethics Committee, British Medical Journal? The BMJ; Journal of Psychiatry and others have been lavishly funded by adverts from drug companies for decades. Now such Journals are going on-line there is not as much 'paper space' in which to advertise and so it it timely to 'have a go' at pharmaceutical companies. They have not, as indeeed Iona Heath suggests, been the only culprits in the medicalisation of communities.