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Why have attitudes to industry funding of research changed?
Author(s) -
BERRIDGE VIRGINIA
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0965-2140
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1997.tb02975.x
Subject(s) - alliance , harm , tobacco industry , government (linguistics) , tobacco control , public relations , meaning (existential) , pharmaceutical industry , control (management) , marketing , harm reduction , political science , business , public health , economics , medicine , psychology , management , law , nursing , psychotherapist , philosophy , linguistics , pharmacology
This paper discusses the history of the changing relationship between research and industrial funding, using the tobacco industry as its example. It seeks to explain why funding which was once acceptable is now unacceptable. The hypotheses advanced include: the changing nature of the industry's interest in research and the role of marketing; the rise of the ‘new public health’ alliance focused on abstention rather than on harm minimization; the role of government funding and control of research; and the changing meaning of tobacco and especially nicotine.