I do not believe that Dante delineated a separate circle of hell for Big Pharma or for its representatives who market medications to doctors and hospitals. Kim Masters reviews White Coat, Black Hat, an expose of that industry and its predilection for tempting physicians and hospitals to alter prescribing practices; his review suggests that if such corporations had existed in the 14th century, Dante would have found room for them in the Inferno, consigned to a pouch of the Eighth Circle with others who had committed Sins of Fraud. Certainly Dante would have known where to find the villain in Donoghue's Room, a threatening man named Old Nick who captures and repeatedly rapes a young woman, holding her and her young son prisoner for years in a small space. Old Nick would have been banished to another pouch in the Eighth Circle, taking his rightful place with the Seducers and Panderers, those who use others for sexual pleasure and/or personal gain.
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