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42
Citations
9896
World Ranking
4655
National Ranking
2214

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology, American Sociological Association

Overview

Donald W. Light is affiliated with Rowan University in the United States and has contributed to the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a particular focus on Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy. Their research spans several interrelated subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Health, Pharmacology, Modeling and Simulation, and Infectious Diseases.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Biosimilars and Bioanalytical Methods

Donald W. Light has published research across several academic venues, such as:

  • The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society
  • Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Health Affairs
  • Frontiers in Sociology

Among the recent papers authored by Donald W. Light are:

  • "The costs of coronavirus vaccines and their pricing," 2021, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
  • "Pharmaceuticals as a market for "lemons": Theory and practice," 2020, Social Science & Medicine
  • "Addressing Health Care Disparities: A Radical Perspective and Proposal," 2020, Frontiers in Sociology
  • "Ethics and the vaccine wars," 2020, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

Donald W. Light has also co-authored work with researchers such as Joel Lexchin and Jonathan J. Darrow, indicating collaborative efforts within their field.

In 2013, Donald W. Light was recognized with the Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology from the American Sociological Association.

Best Publications

  • Institutional change and healthcare organizations: from professional dominance to managed care

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  • Professional dynamics and the changing nature of medical work.

    Frederic W. Hafferty;Donald W. Light

  • Uncertainty and control in professional training.

    Donald Light

  • Pharmaceutical research and development: what do we get for all that money?

    Donald W Light;Joel R Lexchin

  • Introduction: The Structure of the Academic Professions

    Donald W. Light

  • Becoming psychiatrists: The professional transformation of self

    Donald Light

  • Demythologizing the high costs of pharmaceutical research

    Donald W Light;Donald W Light;Rebecca Warburton;Rebecca Warburton;Rebecca Warburton

  • The changing character of the medical profession: a theoretical overview.

    Donald Light;Sol Levine

  • Benchmarks of Fairness for Health Care Reform

    Norman Daniels;Donald W. Light;Ronald L. Caplan

  • Institutional corruption of pharmaceuticals and the myth of safe and effective drugs.

    Donald W. Light;Joel Lexchin;Jonathan J. Darrow

  • Uncertainty and Professional Work: Perceptions of Physicians in Clinical Practice

    Martha S. Gerrity;Jo Anne L. Earp;Robert F. DeVellis;Donald W. Light

  • The practice and ethics of risk-rated health insurance.

    Donald W. Light

  • Life on the Edge: Immigrants Confront the American Health System.

    Alejandro Portes;Patricia Fernández-Kelly;Donald W Light

  • Surface Data and Deep Structure: Observing the Organization of Professional Training.

    Donald Light

  • From managed competition to managed cooperation: theory and lessons from the British experience.

    Donald W. Light

  • High Cancer Drug Prices in the United States: Reasons and Proposed Solutions

    Hagop Kantarjian;David Steensma;Judit Rius Sanjuan;Adam Elshaug

  • Universal health care: lessons from the British experience.

    Donald W. Light

  • Managed competition, governmentality and institutional response in the United Kingdom.

    Donald W Light

  • Commercial influence and the content of medical journals

    Joel Lexchin;Donald W Light

  • The Inverse Benefit Law: How Drug Marketing Undermines Patient Safety and Public Health.

    Howard A Brody;Donald W. Light

  • Market spiral pricing of cancer drugs.

    Donald W. Light;Hagop Kantarjian

Frequent Co-Authors

Norman Daniels
Norman Daniels Harvard University
Arthur L. Caplan
Arthur L. Caplan New York University
Jerry A. Jacobs
Jerry A. Jacobs University of Pennsylvania
Peter Conrad
Peter Conrad Brandeis University
Adam G. Elshaug
Adam G. Elshaug University of Melbourne
Jill Manthorpe
Jill Manthorpe King's College London

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