John AbrahamSelected publications
Article
Abraham, John and Ballinger, Rachel (2012) The emergence of genetically-engineered animal models in carcinogenicity testing of pharmaceuticals: a case-study of process innovation. New Genetics and Society, 31 (2). pp. 223-247. ISSN 1463-6778
Abraham, John (2011) Evolving sociological analyses of 'pharmaceuticalization': a response to Williams, Martin and Gabe. Sociology of Health and Illness, 33 (5). pp. 726-728. ISSN 0141-9889
Davis, Courtney and Abraham, John (2011) Desperately seeking cancer drugs: explaining the emergence and outcomes of accelerated pharmaceutical regulation. Sociology of Health and Illness, 33 (5). pp. 731-47. ISSN 0141-9889
Abraham, John and Ballinger, Rachel (2011) Power, expertise, and the limits of representative democracy: genetics as scientific progress or political legitimation in pharmaceutical risk assessment? Journal of Community Genetics, Publis. pp. 1-13. ISSN 1868-310X
Davis, Courtney and Abraham, John (2011) Rethinking Innovation Accounting in Pharmaceutical Regulation: A Case Study in the Deconstruction of Therapeutic Advance and Therapeutic Breakthrough. Science, Technology, and Human Values, 36 (4). pp. 791-815. ISSN 0162-2439
Davis, Courtney and Abraham, John (2011) A comparative analysis of risk management strategies in EU and US pharmaceutical regulation. Health, Risk and Society, 13. pp. 413-31. ISSN 1369-8575
Abraham, John and Ballinger, Rachel (2011) The neo-liberal regulatory state, industry interests, and the ideological penetration of scientific knowledge: deconstructing the re-definition of carcinogens in pharmaceuticals. Science, Technology, and Human Values. ISSN 0162-2439
Davis, C and Abraham, J (2011) The socio-political roots of pharmaceutical uncertainty in the evaluation of `innovative' diabetes drugs in the EU and the US. Social Science and Medicine, 72. pp. 1574-81. ISSN 0277-9536
Abraham, John (2010) Pharmaceuticalization of society in context: theoretical, empirical and health dimensions. Sociology, 44 (4). pp. 603-622. ISSN 00380385
Abraham, John (2010) On the prohibition of conflicts of interest in pharmaceutical regulation: Precautionary limits and permissive challenges. A commentary on Sismondo (66:9, 2008, 1909¿14) and O'Donovan and Lexchin. Social Science and Medicine, 70 (5). pp. 648-651. ISSN 02779536
Abraham, John and Davis, Courtney (2010) Discovery and Management of Adverse Drug Reactions: The Nomifensine Hypersensitivity Syndrome, 1977-1986. Social History of Medicine, 23 (1). pp. 153-173. ISSN 0951-631X
Abraham, John (2009) Partial progress: governing the pharmaceutical industry and the NHS, 1948-2008. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 34 (6). pp. 931-977. ISSN 0361-6878
Abraham, John (2009) [Review] Adriana Petryana, Andrew Lakoff and Arthur Kleinman, ed. (2006) Global pharmaceuticals: ethics, markets, practices. American Journal of Sociology, 115 (3). pp. 979-983. ISSN 0002-9602
Abraham, John and Davis, Courtney (2009) Drug Evaluation and the Permissive Principle: Continuities and Contradictions between Standards and Practices in Antidepressant Regulation. Social Studies of Science, 39 (4). pp. 569-598. ISSN 0306-3127
Abraham, John (2009) Global health challenges in the pharmaceutical world. Health Economics, Policy & Law, 4 (1). pp. 115-127. ISSN 17441331
Abraham, John (2008) Pupils' perceptions of setting and beyond: a response to Hallam and Ireson. British Educational Research Journal, 34 (6). pp. 855-863. ISSN 14693518
Abraham, John (2008) The politics and bio-ethics of regulatory trust. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 11 (4). pp. 415-426. ISSN 13867423
Abraham, John (2008) Sociology of pharmaceutical development and regulation: a realist empirical research programme. Sociology of Health and Illness, 30 (6). pp. 869-885. ISSN 01419889
Abraham, John (2008) Back to the future on gender and anti-school boys: a response to Jeffrey Smith. Gender and Education, 20 (1). pp. 89-94. ISSN 0954-0253
Abraham, John (2008) Politics, knowledge and objectivity in sociology of education: a response to the case for 'ethical reflexivity' by Gewirtz and Cribb. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 29 (5). pp. 537-548. ISSN 01425692
Abraham, John and Davis, Courtney (2006) Testing times: the emergence of the Practolol disaster and its challenge to British drug regulation in the modern period. Social History of Medicine, 19 (1). 21pp. ISSN 0951-631X
Abraham, John and Davis, Courtney (2005) Risking public safety: experts, the medical profession and 'acceptable' drug injury. Health, Risk and Society, 7 (4). pp. 379-95. ISSN 1369-8575
Abraham, John (2005) Regulating the drugs industry transparently. British Medical Journal, 331. pp. 528-29. ISSN 1759215
Abraham, John and Davis, Courtney (2005) A comparative analysis of drug safety withdrawals in the UK and US: implications for current regulatory thinking and policy? Social Science and Medicine, 61 (5). pp. 881-892. ISSN 0277-9536
Abraham, John (2004) Pharmaceuticals, the state and the global harmonisation process. Australian Health Review, 28 (2). pp. 150-160. ISSN 01565788
Abraham, John (2003) Learning from drug disasters and reforming medicines regulation. Critical Public Health, 13 (3). pp. 269-279. ISSN 09581596
Abraham, John and Reed, Tim (2003) Reshaping the carcinogenic risk assessment of medicines: international harmonisation for drug safety, industry/regulator efficiency or both? Social Science and Medicine, 57 (2). pp. 195-204. ISSN 0277-9536
Abraham, John (2003) The science and politics of medicines control. Drug Safety, 26 (3). pp. 135-143. ISSN 01145916
Abraham, John (2002) Making regulation responsive to commercial interests: streamlining drug industry watchdogs. British Medical Journal, 325 (7373). pp. 1164-69. ISSN 09598138
Abraham, John (2002) The pharmaceutical industry as political player. Lancet, 360 (9344). pp. 1498-1502. ISSN 0140-6736
Abraham, John (2002) Transnational industrial power, the medical profession and the regulatory state: adverse drug reactions and the crisis over Halcion in the Netherlands and the UK. Social Science and Medicine, 55 (9). pp. 1671-1690. ISSN 02779536
Abraham, John (2002) A social science framework for the analysis of health technology regulation: the risks and benefits of innovative pharmaceuticals in a comparative context. Health, Risk and Society, 4 (3). pp. 305-24. ISSN 13698575
Abraham, John (2002) Regulatory science as culture: contested two-dimensional values at the US FDA. Science as Culture, 11 (3). pp. 309-335. ISSN 1470-1189
Abraham, John and Reed, Tim (2002) Progress, innovation and regulatory science in drug development: the politics of international standard-setting. Social Studies of Science, 32 (3). pp. 337-370. ISSN 0306-3127
Abraham, John (2002) Drug safety and the safety of patients: the challenge to medicine and health from permissive expert risk assessments of triazolam (Halcion). Health, Risk and Society, 4 (1). pp. 19-29. ISSN 13698575
Abraham, John and Lewis, Graham (2002) Citizenship, Medical Expertise and the Capitalist Regulatory State in Europe. Sociology, 36 (1). pp. 67-88. ISSN 0038-0385
Abraham, John (2001) The creation of neo-liberal corporate bias in transnational medicines control: the industrial shaping and interest dynamics of the European regulatory state. European Journal of Political Research, 39 (1). pp. 53-80. ISSN 03044130
Abraham, John (2001) Accuracy, critique and the anti-tribes in sociology of education: a reply to Sara Delamont's 'Anomalous Beasts'. Sociology, 35 (2). pp. 561-574. ISSN 0038-0385
Abraham, John (2001) Trading risks for markets: the international harmonisation of pharmaceuticals regulation. Health, Risk and Society, 3 (1). pp. 113-28. ISSN 13698575
Book
Abraham, John and Ballinger, Rachel (2014) Controlling pharmaceutical risks: science, cancer, and the geneticization of drug testing. Genetics and society . Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 9780415622479
Davis, Courtney and Abraham, John (2013) Unhealthy pharmaceutical regulation: innovation, politics and promissory science. Health, technology and society . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230008663
Abraham, John and Lewis, Graham (2000) Regulating Medicines in Europe: Competition Expertise and Public Health. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-20877-2
Abraham, John and Sheppard, Julie (1999) The therapeutic nightmare: the battle over the world's most controversial sleeping pill. Earthscan, London. ISBN 9781853835520
Abraham, John (1995) Science, politics and the pharmaceutical industry: controversy and bias in drug regulation. UCL Press, London. ISBN 9781857282009
Abraham, John (1995) Divide and School: Gender & class dynamics in comprehensive education. RoutledgeFalmer, London. ISBN 9780750703918
Abraham, John (1991) Food and Development: The Political Economy of Hunger and the Modern Diet. Kogan Page. ISBN 9780749405410
Millstone, Erik and Abraham, John (1988) Additives: A Guide for Everyone. Penguin. ISBN 9780140512236
Book Section
Abraham, John (2010) The Sociological Concomitants of the Pharmaceutical Industry and Medications. In: Bird, Chloe E, Conrad, Peter, Fremont, Allen M and Timmermans, Stefan (eds.) Handbook of Medical Sociology. Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, pp. 290-308. ISBN 9780826517210
Abraham, John (2010) Les principaux défis sociopolitiques de la mise au point des produits pharmaceutiques, de leur réglementation et de la santé publique. In: Garnier, Catherine and Saives, Anne-Laure (eds.) Turbulences dans la chaîne des médicaments. Liber. ISBN 9782895782292
Abraham, John (2009) The pharmaceutical industry, the state, and the NHS. In: Gabe, Jonathan and Calnan, Michael (eds.) The New Sociology of the Health Service. Routledge, pp. 99-121. ISBN 9780415455978
Abraham, John (2009) Sociology of pharmaceuticals development and regulation: a realist empirical research programme. In: Williams, Simon J, Gabe, Jonathan and Davis, Peter (eds.) Pharmaceuticals and Society: Critical Discourses and Debates. Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs . Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, pp. 54-70. ISBN 9781405190848
Abraham, John (2009) The international conference on harmonisation of technical requirements for registration of pharmaceuticals for human use. In: Tietje, C and Brouder, A (eds.) Handbook of transnational economic governance regimes. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, pp. 1041-1053. ISBN 9789004163300
Davis, Courtney and Abraham, John (2009) The role of standards in understanding the modern drug regulatory period. In: Bonah, C (ed.) Harmonizing drugs : standards in 20th-century pharmaceutical history. Glyphe. ISBN 9782358150163
Abraham, John (2008) Bias and science in knowledge production: implications for the politics of drug regulation. In: O'Donovan, Orla and Glavanis-Grantham, Kathy (eds.) Power, politics, and pharmaceuticals : drug regulation in Ireland in the global context. Cork University Press, Cork, pp. 43-57. ISBN 9781859184196
Abraham, John (2004) Scientific Expertise and Regulatory Decision-Making: Standards, Evidential Interpretation and Social Interests in the Pharmaceutical Sector. In: Edmond, Gary (ed.) Experts in Law and Regulation. Applied Legal Philosophy . Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, pp. 51-67. ISBN 9780754624011
Abraham, John and Lewis, Graham (2003) Europeanization of medicines regulation. In: Abraham, John and Lawton Smith, Helen (eds.) The Regulation of the Pharmaceutical Industry. Palgrave, pp. 42-81. ISBN 9780333790441
Abraham, John and Reed, Tim (2003) Globalization of medicines control. In: Abraham, John and Lawton Smith, Helen (eds.) The Regulation of the Pharmaceutical Industry. Palgrave, pp. 82-107. ISBN 9780333790441
Abraham, John (2003) Introduction. In: Abraham, John and Lawton Smith, Helen (eds.) Regulation of the Pharmaceutical Industry. Studies in Regulation . Palgrave MacMillan, London, pp. 1-10. ISBN 9780333790441
Abraham, John (2001) The political economy of medicines regulation in Britain. In: Lawton Smith, Helen (ed.) The Regulation of Science and Technology. Studies in Regulation . Palgrave, London, pp. 221-263. ISBN 9780333790458
Edited Book
Abraham, Prof John and Lawton Smith, Dr Helen, eds. (2003) Regulation of the Pharmaceutical Industry. PALGRAVE. ISBN 9780333790441
Conference or Workshop Item
Abraham, John (2008) Governance of Knowledge in Regulatory Science. In: Inter-University Conference on Governance of Knowledge, 21-25 April 2008, Dubrovnik.