Special Publication: "Comparing Tobacco, Alcohol, Food, and Pharmaceuticals"

Four papers resulting from IMAP's November 2009 conference “Medicine-Industry Relationships: Comparing Tobacco, Alcohol, Food, and Pharmaceuticals” have been published as a Special Section by the American Journal of Public Health.  The articles appeared on-line on November 17 and will appear in the January 2012 print issue.  The four articles are accompanied by a guest editor’s note by David Rothman. 

The articles appearing in this special section are:

• David J. Rothman (guest editor’s note), “Consequences of Medicine-Industry Relationships for Public Health and Medicine”
• James F. Mosher, “Joe Camel in a Bottle: Diageo, the Smirnoff Brand, and the Transformation of the Youth Alcohol Market”
• Allan M. Brandt, “Inventing Conflicts of Interest: Big Tobacco in the 20th Century”
• Joseph S. Ross, Cary P. Gross, and Harlan M. Krumholz, “Pharmaceutical-Industry Sponsored Research: The Need for Transparency”
• David Jernigan, “Confusion, Contention and Collaboration: Alcohol Producers and Global Public Health”