MEDICAL INNOVATION, UNMET MEDICAL NEED, AND THE DRUG PIPELINE
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Keywords
Recombinant DNA, technical efficiency, organizational efficiency, anthropology
Abstract
This paper outlines and illustrates the working of a theoretical approach from the social sciences for analyzing medical innovation, unmet medical need, and the drug pipeline. Using the social history of three drugs made from recombinant DNA (insulin, human growth hormone, and tissue-plasminogen activator) the paper shows how drugs can be both technically and organizationally efficient while the needs they satisfy can be created or identified. The paper posits that drugs that require more organizational efficiency tend to satisfy identified, rather then created needs.
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11. Fleising U. In search of genohype: A content analysis of biotechnology company documents. New Genetics and Society 2001;20(3):239-254.
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Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992:168-211.
16. Abbott A. The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
17. Lowy I. Between Bench and Bedside. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.
18. Goodell RS. (1979) Public Involvement in the DNA Controversy: The Case of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Science, Technology, and Human Values 979;4(27):36-43.
19. Krimsky S. Genetic Alchemy: The Social History of the Recombinant DNA Controversy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1983.
20. Hughes SS. Making Dollars out of DNA: The First Major Patent in Biotechnology and the Commercialization of Biotechnology, 1974-1980. Isis 2001;92(3):541-575.
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22. Wright S. Molecular Politics: Developing American and British Regulatory Policy for Genetic Engineering, 1972-1982. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
23. McKelvey M. Evolutionary Innovations: The Business of Biotechnology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
24. Bogner WC, Thomas H. (1996). Drugs to Market: Creating Value and Advantage in the Pharmaceutical Industry. New York: Pergamon,1996.
25. Callahan P, Abboud L. A new boost for the vertically challenged -- FDA panel gives initial nod to use of growth hormones for healthy but
short kids. Wall Street Journal 2003; Eastern Edition, 11 June, pp. D.1.
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27. Kolata G. New Growth Industry in Human Growth Hormone? Science 1986;234:22-24.
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29. Barnett HJM, Buchan AM. The Imperative to Develop Dedicated Stroke Centers. JAMA 2000;283(23):3125-3126.
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31. Lenzer J. Alteplase for stroke: money and optimistic claims buttress the "brain attack" campaign. British Medical Journal 2000;324:723-729.
32. Wolff SP. Trying times for ‘human insulin’. Nature 1992;356(6368):375-376.
33. Teuscher A, Berger WB. Hypoglycaemic unawareness in diabetics transferred from bee/porcine insulin to ‘human insulin’. Lancet 1987;2(8555):382-385.
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