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Institutional corruption: The analysis of undue pharmaceutical industry influence in the medical profession

Anna Eszter Laskai is a PhD candidate in the Erasmus Mundus Doctorate in Cultural and Global Criminology. Anna holds an LL.M diploma in Forensics, Criminology and Law (Maastricht University), an MA in Criminology (ELTE University), and a BA in Sociology (University of Szeged).

Laskai’s research examines the relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and the medical profession and how the relationship may induce conflicting interests detrimental to the practice of medicine and medical science. Using qualitative research methodology within the medical community in Hungary and the Netherlands, research will focus on the perceptions of medical professionals in relation to ties with the pharmaceutical industry and the effects of industry collaboration on medical autonomy. Laskai’s research interests include organizational criminology, white-collar and corporate crime, institutional and dependency corruption, social harm, as well as questions regarding structure versus agency within an economic culture of profit maximization.