The exhibition and subsequent book, "A State of Health: New Jersey's 
Medical Heritage"  (Rutgers U Press, 2001), devoted lots of attention 
to NJ's pharmaceutical industry: the state had the highest 
concentration of the world's big pharma companies, and they carried 
out major biomedical research.

Your question doesn't specifically address the issues of funding and 
ethics. Most of the funding for the State of Health show/book came 
from a dozen big companies. I made a point of telling them -- before 
they donated -- that history guaranteed them all some (favorable) 
mention in the show, but that their donations could not/would not 
determine the amount of attention any individual company got. The 
scope of their archives and their archivists' help would be much more 
important.

One smaller company happened to be half a mile from my house. That 
convenience undoubtedly got them a bigger place in the show than a 
couple of huge companies that did not give me easy access to their 
collections.


Karen Reeds
Curator, "A State of Health: New Jersey's Medical Heritage"
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>Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 23:39:10 -0500
>From: Mike Reuter <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Entrepreneur or Business center?
>
>Hi all:
>
>Has anyone ever experienced or helped develop an exhibit or center 
>around local business, commerce, and entrepreneurialism?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Mike Reuter
>Rock County Historical Society
>

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