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Parallel Problems: Applying Institutional Corruption Analysis of Congress to Big Pharma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Gregg Fields
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In 1995, Dennis Thompson, the founding director of Harvard’s program in Ethics and the Professions, authored a book entitled Ethics in Congress. That subject, in and of itself, seemingly was not new. And it undoubtedly inspired a few irreverent snickers. Consider that a Goggle search of “Ethics in Congress oxymoron” recently produced 5.79 million results in just over a tenth of a second.

But it was the subtitle of the book — From Individual to Institutional Corruption — that revealed how Thompson’s tome signaled an abrupt departure from the standard paradigms for measuring political corruption.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , Fall 2013 , pp. 556 - 560
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2013

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