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Managing Conflicts of Interest Should Begin with Dialogue and Education, Not Punitive Measures

Comment on “Toward a Sociology of Conflict of Interest in Medical Research” by Sarah Winch and Michael Sinnott

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Elise Smith and Marie-Josée Potvin for helpful comments on this manuscript. Many of the ideas here have benefited from ongoing critique and discussion with the Conflict of Interest Research Group (conflict-of-interest.net) at the Université de Montréal. Mathieu was supported by a start-up grant from the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (Eric Racine, IRCM) and scholarships from the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST) and the Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montréal (CREUM). This research was supported by grants to Williams-Jones from the Quebec Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC) and the Ethics Office of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

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The original article by Sarah Winch and Michael Sinnott, published in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 8(4): 389–391, can be located at DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9332-0.

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Mathieu, G., Williams-Jones, B. Managing Conflicts of Interest Should Begin with Dialogue and Education, Not Punitive Measures. Bioethical Inquiry 9, 221–222 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-012-9358-y

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