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Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Medicine: The United States, France, and Japan

Marc A. Rodwin, 2011, Oxford University Press (Oxford, 978-0-19-975548-6, 392 pp.)

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Dr. Kesselheim is supported by a career development award from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (K08HS18465-01) and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research.

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  1. Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Adam Licurse

  2. Harvard Medical School, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 1620 Tremont St. Suite 3030, Boston, MA, USA

    Aaron S. Kesselheim

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Licurse, A., Kesselheim, A.S. Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Medicine: The United States, France, and Japan . Bioethical Inquiry 8, 383–386 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-011-9326-y

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