In between ethics and efficiency. On the professional identity of doctors working for the drug industry in the field of biomedical oncology.

介于道德与效率之间。

• 批准号: 229123496
• 负责人: Dr. Christiane Schnell
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Sozialforschung (IfS) an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2011-12-31 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/229123496?language=en
• 关键词: between; ethics; efficiency.; professional; identity

The project connects empirical research on the professional identity of doctors working for the drug industry with a theoretical approach concerning the current changes of professionalism. Both, an increasing relevance of biomedicine and the rising economisation within the industrial research and development process, are affecting the current transformation of pharmaceutical production. Doctors, who are working as team leaders of international projects, are playing a key role in this process. They have to manage the research and development of new drugs and compo-nents in terms of medical innovation but also very strictly concerning economic efficiency. In the face of the fundamental alteration of the health care system during the last decades the medical profession experienced complex changes in respect of the relations between scientific and practical medicine, of ongoing specialization and a holistic perspective, of the expert-client relation and of the dynamics between profession and organizations. It is assumed, that the occupational field of doctors working for the pharmaceutical industry is also affected by theses changes. This becomes in particular apparent in the field of oncology, which is very much dependent on pharmaceutical developments. The professional identity of medicines working in this field is probably influenced by a combination of different socializing experiences within education, clinical practice, pure and applied research. In a theoretical perspective it is supposed, that this is exemplary for a contemporary type of professionalism, combining professional knowledge and values and managerial orientation on a new level. In how far disciplinary and ethical values and economic constraints of the pharmaceutical development come into conflict, how the professional self-concept is constituted on the individual level and if new moral communities are emerging, will be studied empirically within this project. Biomedical research on cancer-diseases is focussed, because this field represents distinctive contradictions between medical curing interests and the pressures of a branch, which is driven by shareholder value, high level investment risks and increasing international competition.

该项目将对为制药行业工作的医生的职业身份进行的实证研究与关于当前职业精神变化的理论方法联系起来。生物医学的相关性越来越强，工业研发过程中的节约化程度不断提高，这两个因素都在影响着当前制药生产的转型。医生作为国际项目的组长，在这一过程中发挥着关键作用。他们必须在医疗创新方面管理新药和成分的研发，但也非常严格地关注经济效益。面对过去几十年医疗保健制度的根本变化，医疗专业在科学医学和实用医学之间的关系、正在进行的专业化和整体观点、专家与客户的关系以及专业和组织之间的动态等方面经历了复杂的变化。据推测，制药行业医生的职业领域也受到这些变化的影响。这一点在肿瘤学领域变得特别明显，该领域非常依赖于药物开发。从事这一领域工作的医生的职业认同感可能受到教育、临床实践、纯研究和应用研究中不同社交经历的影响。从理论的角度来看，这应该是当代专业精神的典范，将专业知识、价值观和管理导向结合在一个新的水平上。关于制药发展的学科和伦理价值与经济限制之间的冲突程度，职业自我概念是如何在个人层面上构成的，以及新的道德共同体是否正在出现，将在这个项目中进行实证研究。癌症的生物医学研究之所以受到关注，是因为这一领域代表了医疗治疗利益与受股东价值、高水平投资风险和日益激烈的国际竞争驱动的分支机构压力之间的鲜明矛盾。

项目成果

Proliferations and Vulnerabilities: Hybridization of Professionalism in the Field of Cancer Medicine

扩散和脆弱性：癌症医学领域专业精神的混合

• DOI: 10.7577/pp.1707
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: Professions and Professionalism
• 作者: Schnell;Christiane
• 通讯作者: Christiane