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Toward a Postmodernist View of Conflict of Interest

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

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Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank Zubin Master, Bryn Williams-Jones, Ghislaine Mathieu, and Marie-Josée Potvin for their helpful comments on this manuscript. Many of the ideas have benefited from ongoing critique and discussion with the Conflict of Interest Research Group (conflict-of-interest.net) at the Université de Montréal. Smith was supported by master’s and doctoral scholarships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and scholarships from the Université de Montréal (Bioethics Programme and Applied Social Sciences Doctorate Programme). The research was supported by grants to B. 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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  1. Doctorat en sciences humaines appliquées, option bioéthique, Programmes de bioéthique, Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, Canada, H3C 3J7

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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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Smith, E. Toward a Postmodernist View of Conflict of Interest. Bioethical Inquiry 9, 223–224 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-012-9359-x

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