In 2008, Congressional investigators accused the three psychiatrists — Biederman, Thomas Spencer and Timothy Wilens — of failing to disclose more than $1 million each in payments from the drug industry. As I blogged about here, most of Biederman’s financial ties were with the makers of anti-psychotic drugs at the very same time he was promoting the use of these drugs in the treatment of childhood bipolar disorder. According to documents released in a lawsuit, Biederman also courted funding from Johnson & Johnson by promising that his work at Mass. General would promote the use of its anti-psychotic Risperdal in children. Johnson & Johnson gave the hospital $700,000 for a Biederman-led research center that did studies promoting Risperdal. All of which raises the question of whether Biederman helped the drug company illegally market the off-label use of its anti-psychotic drug in children READ MORE
2010. Towards an Era of Bureaucratically Controlled Medical Compliance? Anthropology & Medicine 17:113-127. Co-author Michael Oldani.
2010. Dangerous Noncompliance: A Narrative Analysis of a CNN Special Investigation into Mental Illness. Anthropology & Medicine 17:229-244. Co-author Douglas Glick.
2010. Shadow Science: Zyprexa, Eli Lilly and the Globalization of Pharmaceutical Damage Control. BioSocieties 5:236-255.
2010. Marketing Global Health Care: The Practices of Big Pharma. The Socialist Register, 2010 Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism, Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, (eds.). Monthly Review Press, pp. 95-115.
2009. Is Marketing the Enemy of Pharmaceutical Innovation? The Hastings Center Report 39(4):13-17.
2009. Getting to Yes: Corporate Power and the Creation of a Psychopharmaceutical Blockbuster. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 33:185-215.
2009. Consumers are Patients!: Shared Decision Making and Treatment Non-compliance as Business Opportunity. Transcultural Psychiatry 46(1):107-130.
2006. Pharmaceutical Marketing and the Invention of the Medical Consumer. PLoS Medicine April 3(4): e189. http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/ ?request=get- document&doi=10.1371/ journal.pmed.0030189>
2006. Educating for Global Mental Health: American Pharmaceutical Companies and the Adoption of SSRIs in Japan. Petryna, Adriana, Andrew Lakoff, and Arthur Kleinman (eds). Pharmaceuticals and Globalization: Ethics, Markets, Practices. Duke University Press, pp. 85-110.
2004. The Marketing Era: From Professional Practice to Global Provisioning. New York: Routledge. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Marketing-Era-Professional-Practice-Provisioning/dp/0415945445/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238977382&sr=1-1
The Work of David Healy, Psychiatrist, MD
The Antidepressant Era (1998) ISBN 0-674-03958-0
The Psychopharmacologists II (1999) ISBN 1860360106
The Psychopharmacologists III(2000) ISBN 0340761105
Psychiatric Drugs Explained (2001) ISBN 0-443-07018-0
The Creation of Psychopharmacology (2002) ISBN 0-674-00619-4
Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression (2004) ISBN 0-8147-3669-6
Shock Therapy: The History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness, with Edward Shorter. (2007) ISBN 0813541697
Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder (2008) ISBN 0801888220
Petryna, Adriana, Andrew Lakoff, and Arthur Kleinman, 2006. Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets Practices. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Etkin, Nina, 1992. “Side Effects”: Cultural Constructions and Reinterpretations of Western Pharmaceuticals. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 6(2): 99-113.
The Work of Joao Biehl, Ph.D., Anthropologist, Princeton Universit
The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century (2006)
Governing the Present: Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life, with Peter Miller (2008)
Chapters in edited collections (selected)
'Biological Citizenship', in Aihwa Ong and Stephen Collier, eds., Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems, pp. 439–463. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005 (with Carlos Novas)
'Becoming Neurochemical Selves', in Nico Stehr, ed., Biotechnology, Commerce and Civil Society, Transaction Press, 2004
'The neurochemical self and its anomalies', in R. Ericson, ed., Risk and Morality, pp. 407–437. University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Papers in refereed journals (selected)
'Neurochemical selves', Society, November/December 2003, 41, 1, 46-59.
'Kontroll', Fronesis, 2003, Nr. 14-15, 82-101.
'The politics of life itself', Theory, Culture and Society (2001), 18(6): 1-30.
'Genetic risk and the birth of the somatic individual', Economy and Society, Special Issue on configurations of risk (2000), 29 (4): 484-513. (with Carlos Novas).
'The biology of culpability: pathological identities in a biological culture', Theoretical Criminology (2000), 4, 1, 5-34.
The Antidepressant Era (1998) ISBN 0-674-03958-0
The Psychopharmacologists II (1999) ISBN 1860360106
The Psychopharmacologists III(2000) ISBN 0340761105
Psychiatric Drugs Explained (2001) ISBN 0-443-07018-0
The Creation of Psychopharmacology (2002) ISBN 0-674-00619-4
Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression (2004) ISBN 0-8147-3669-6
Shock Therapy: The History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness, with Edward Shorter. (2007) ISBN 0813541697
Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder (2008) ISBN 0801888220
Petryna, Adriana, Andrew Lakoff, and Arthur Kleinman, 2006. Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets Practices. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Etkin, Nina, 1992. “Side Effects”: Cultural Constructions and Reinterpretations of Western Pharmaceuticals. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 6(2): 99-113.
The Work of Joao Biehl, Ph.D., Anthropologist, Princeton Universit
The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century (2006)
Governing the Present: Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life, with Peter Miller (2008)
Chapters in edited collections (selected)
'Biological Citizenship', in Aihwa Ong and Stephen Collier, eds., Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems, pp. 439–463. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005 (with Carlos Novas)
'Becoming Neurochemical Selves', in Nico Stehr, ed., Biotechnology, Commerce and Civil Society, Transaction Press, 2004
'The neurochemical self and its anomalies', in R. Ericson, ed., Risk and Morality, pp. 407–437. University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Papers in refereed journals (selected)
'Neurochemical selves', Society, November/December 2003, 41, 1, 46-59.
'Kontroll', Fronesis, 2003, Nr. 14-15, 82-101.
'The politics of life itself', Theory, Culture and Society (2001), 18(6): 1-30.
'Genetic risk and the birth of the somatic individual', Economy and Society, Special Issue on configurations of risk (2000), 29 (4): 484-513. (with Carlos Novas).
'The biology of culpability: pathological identities in a biological culture', Theoretical Criminology (2000), 4, 1, 5-34.