Download or read book Ethics and the Pharmaceutical Industry written by Michael A. Santoro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-31 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the pharmaceutical industry's notable contributions to human progress, including the development of miracle drugs for treating cancer, AIDS, and heart disease, there is a growing tension between the industry and the public. Government officials and social critics have questioned whether the multibillion-dollar industry is fulfilling its social responsibilities. This doubt has been fueled by the national debate over drug pricing and affordable healthcare, and internationally by the battles against epidemic diseases, such as AIDS, in the developing world. Debates are raging over how the industry can and should be expected to act. The contributions in this book by leading figures in industry, government, NGOs, the medical community, and academia discuss and propose solutions to the ethical dilemmas of drug industry behavior. They examine such aspects as the role of intellectual property rights and patent protection, the moral and economic requisites of research and clinical trials, drug pricing, and marketing.
Download or read book Pharmaceutical Ethics written by Sam Salek and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-04-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pharmaceutical Ethics is an important text, which aims to provide the ethical guidelines much needed by the pharmaceutical industry. By focusing on many of the central issues such as the ethical aspects of clinical trials, informed consent, physician or patient choice and pharmaceutical advertising, this text will provide very good coverage of an area which perhaps still lacks coherent instruction. * Covers ethical issues involved in the testing and use of pharmaceuticals on human beings * Investigates issues such as whether choice of drug should lie with the physician or the patient * Looks at a wide variety of subjects connected with pharmaceutical ethics. * Focuses specifically on the issues surrounding the pharmaceutical industry, not medicine in general. * Fulfils an important need in the Pharmaceutical Industry.
Download or read book The Law and Ethics of the Pharmaceutical Industry written by M.N.G. Dukes and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005-11-04 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the most massive and successful business sectors, the pharmaceutical industry is a potent force for good in the community, yet its behaviour is frequently questioned: could it serve society at large better than it has done in the recent past? Its own internal ethics, both in business and science, may need a careful reappraisal, as may the extent to which the law - administrative, civil and criminal - succeeds in guiding (and where neccessary contraining) it. The rules of behavior that may be considered to apply to today's pharmaceutical industry have emerged over a very long period and the process goes on. Even the immensely detailed standards for quality, safety and efficacy laid down in drug law and regulation during the second half of the twentieth century have their limitations as tools for ensuring that the public interest is well served. In particular, national and regional regulatory agencies are heavily dependent on industrial data for their decision-making, their standards and competence vary, and even the existing network of agencies does not cover the entire world. What is more there are many areas of law and regulation affecting the industry, concerning for example the pricing of medicines, the conduct of clinical studies, the health protection of workers and concern for the environment. In some fields it is indeed hardly possible to maintain standards through regulation.Professor N.M. Graham Dukes, a physician and lawyer with long term experience in industrial research management, academic study and international drug policy, provides here a powerfully documented analysis into the way this industry thinks, acts, and is viewed, and examines the current trends pointing to change.*Provides a balanced picture of the current role of the pharmaceutical industry in society*Includes indices of conventions, laws, and regulations; as well as judicial and disciplinary cases*This is the only book addressing the legal implications of big pharma activities and ethical standards
Download or read book Case Studies in Pharmacy Ethics written by Robert Veatch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-10 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pharmacists face ethical choices constantly -- sometimes dramatic life-and-death decisions, but more often subtle, less conspicuous choices that are nonetheless important. Among the topics confronted are assisted suicide, conscientious refusal, pain management, equitable distribution of drug resources within institutions and managed care plans, confidentiality, and alternative and non-traditional therapies. Veatch and Haddad's book, first published in 1999, was the first collection of case studies based on the real experiences of practicing pharmacists, for use as a teaching tool for pharmacy students. The second edition accounts for the many changes in pharmacy since 1999, including assisted suicide in Oregon, the purchasing of less expensive drugs from Canada, and the influence of managed care on prescriptions. The presentation of some cases is shortened, most are revised and updated, and two new chapters have been added. The first new chapter presents a new model for analyzing cases, while the second focuses on the ethics of new drug distribution systems, for example hospitals where pharmacists are forced to choose drugs based on cost-effectiveness, and internet based pharmacies.
Download or read book Global Pharmaceuticals written by Adriana Petryna and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAnthropological study of the globalization of pharmaceuticals and its effects on local cultures, health, and economics./div
Download or read book Pharmacy Ethics written by H John Baldwin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1991-05-16 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pharmacy Ethics is certain to be heartily welcomed by all members of the pharmaceutical profession. It is the first guide to professional ethics written specifically for pharmacy professionals. This invaluable new book features select readings and cases on the topic of ethics. The previously published readings and original cases were selected based on a national survey of pharmacy faculty. Readers will be challenged by the selection of thought-provoking, controversial articles on such topics as refilling controlled drug prescriptions, patient stockpiling of medication, the abortion pill, lethal injection, patient rights, commercialism, human experimentation, mail order pharmacy, and much more. Highlights of Pharmacy Ethics include: a broad selection of contemporary and often controversial issues. practical examples of ethical dilemmas encountered daily in the profession by the individual pharmacist practitioner. readings in pharmacy ethics and application of ethics theory to everyday situations. individual case study examples, developed specifically for teaching pharmacy ethics.
Download or read book Hooked written by Howard Brody and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, medical professionals have betrayed the public's trust by accepting various benefits from the pharmaceutical industry. Both drug company representatives and doctors employ artful spin to portray this behavior positively to the public, and to themselves. In Hooked, Howard Brody argues that we can neither understand the problem, nor propose helpful solutions until we identify the many levels of activity connecting these purportedly noble industries. We can pass laws and enact regulations, but ultimately the medical profession must take responsibility for its own integrity. Hooked is a wake-up call for anyone expecting high quality, ethical medical care.
Download or read book Ethical Dimensions of Pharmaceutical Care written by Amy Haddad and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1996-11-21 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethical Dimensions of Pharmaceutical Care examines the recent shift in the pharmaceutical field to care provision as the primary definer of what it means to practice pharmacy in the 1990s. In the process, this book encourages readers to reconceptualize their roles as care providers and develop their own solutions to ethical dilemmas encountered in their practices. Realizing that practitioners must ultimately define their own principles and the points at which they are willing to compromise, the authors help readers construct individual philosophical approaches for conducting their services. An analytical and philosophical guidebook, Ethical Dimensions of Pharmaceutical Care delves into the diverse, yet connected, areas of pharmacy education and practice, ethics, and the ethics of care. Synthesizing theory and practice, it probes stimulating areas such as feminism and pharmacy ethics. It opens the doors to a better understanding of the deeper and multiple meanings of covenant, moral compromise, and integrity. Bringing together experts from the ethics of care, pharmaceutical care, and pharmacy ethics, Ethical Dimensions of Pharmaceutical Care analyzes the relationships between these disciplines and their combined impact on pharmacy. Professional standards and norms are examined as well as new methods relevant to the daily practice of pharmacy and its future directions. Practitioners, pharmacy academicians, and pharmacy students will find the book?s discussions of the following topics thought-provoking and instructive: comprehensive pharmaceutical care integrity and the role of the pharmacist philosophical issues encountered in practice ethical conflict and moral compromise the 1994 Code of Ethics for Pharmacists Ethical Dimensions of Pharmaceutical Care recognizes the value that traditional models of moral rules and principles have had in the various health professions. It contends, however, that the modern health care system requires different methods for practicing ethics. Proposing new approaches that acknowledge the complexity of the modern health care system, this book marks out for the pharmacist a course that will continue beyond the confines of the book.
Download or read book Ethical Responsibility in Pharmacy Practice written by Robert A. Buerki and published by Amer. Inst. History of Pharmacy. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drugs Ethics and Quality of Life written by Bruce White and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weigh pivotal healthcare ethics, law, and public policy issues that resulted in tipping-point legal actions Weighing the ethical considerations in healthcare and drug issues can be emotionally difficult and mentally challenging. Drugs, Ethics, and Quality of Life: Cases and Materials on Ethical, Legal, and Public Policy Dilemmas in Medicine and Pharmacy Practice is a fascinating casebook that clearly discusses the most contentious ethical conflicts that resulted in legal actions. This easy-to-read text provides all sides of controversial real-life cases that provoke spirited debate while teaching the fundamentals of pharmacy law and ethics. The book is a unique exploration into the basic principles of bioethics, end of life care, and drug research. Drugs, Ethics, and Quality of Life explains in detail the concepts of ethics, quality of life, beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice. Recent cases provide illuminating backdrops for the exploration of these concepts, making them easily understood. A special introduction includes important information about ethics and the pharmaceutical code of ethics. Two appendixes provide further opportunities for discussion and the examination of law and decisions, and resources about drug use decisions and situations. This thought-provoking textbook plainly shows the crucial role ethics plays in today’s society. Ethical topics explored in Drugs, Ethics, and Quality of Life includes legal cases on: tobacco COX-2 inhibitors medical marijuana the “morning after” pill and other emergency contraceptives pain medications and palliative care drugs physician-assisted suicide drug use in medically futile situations gene therapy Drugs, Ethics, and Quality of Life is valuable, insightful reading as well as a good adjunct text for pharmacy students, pharmacists, medical students, physicians, bio
Download or read book Profits before People written by Leonard J. Weber and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pharmaceutical industry has come under intense criticism in recent years. One poll found that 70% of the sample agreed that drug companies put profits ahead of people. Is this perception accurate? Have drug companies traded ethics for profits and placed people at risk? In Profits before People? Leonard J. Weber exposes pharmaceutical industry practices that have raised ethical concerns. Providing systematic ethical analysis and reflection, he discusses such practices as compensating physicians for serving as speakers or consultants, providing incentives to physicians to enroll patients as subjects in clinical research, and advertising prescription drugs to the public through the mass media. Weber's critique of the industry is stern. While acknowledging that new industry guidelines are promising, he finds much room for improvement in the way drug companies market their products. Yet Weber makes a strong case that profits and ethics can coexist and that they are not mutually exclusive. In an effort to understand the proper place of commerce in disseminating information about new drugs, the book aims to clarify basic responsibilities and to help identify sound ethical practices. It recognizes that ethics and law are not the same, that "having a right" is different from "doing the right thing," and that taking ethics seriously means recognizing that the law does not answer all questions about what is right. Weber points the way to more demanding standards and better practices that might begin to restore confidence in the drug industry.
Download or read book Case Studies in Pharmacy Ethics written by Robert M. Veatch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pharmacists constantly face ethical choices -- sometimes dramatic matters of life-and-death decisions, but more often subtle, less conspicuous choices that are nonetheless important. Case Studies in Pharmacy Ethics identifies and discusses the broad range of ethics issues pharmacists confront in practice. Ranging from situations faced in direct patient care to broader issues, this book uses cases to explore topics and the ethical framework within which practitioners make decisions about such issues as assisted suicide, conscientious refusal, pain management, and confidentiality as well as the equitable distribution of drug resources within institutions or managed care organizations and clinical studies on vulnerable populations. As the scope of the pharmacist's role expands, pharmacists find themselves facing new ethical challenges. This third edition accounts for some of the many changes in pharmacy practice and in the delivery of health care since the second edition. It includes an entirely new chapter on health insurance and health system planning, and a discussion of the impact of the Affordable Care Act and cases that are updated to reflect current pharmacy practice models. It serves as a valuable resource regarding topics that are both specific to pharmacy practice and those that involve the health care system more generally.
Download or read book Teaching and Learning Strategies in Pharmacy Ethics written by Amy Marie Haddad and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1997-12-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you read Teaching and Learning Strategies in Pharmacy Ethics, you won?t be surprised that 300 copies of the original version quickly disappeared, and ethics instructors from all over the country soon clamored for a second dose. Broad in scope but filled with specific examples, its nuts-and-bolts approach to pharmacy ethics instruction takes the form of a written prescription from several qualified professionals, giving you a variety of ways in which you can develop your own teaching methods and build on tested course designs. Accomodating enough to serve the interests of pharmacy educators as well as professionals in many other health science fields, Teaching and Learning Strategies in Pharmacy Ethics contains practical guidelines and examples that will aid you--the novice or expert--in finding the ideal layout for your pharmacy curriculum. Specifically, you?ll read about: contemporary legal cases on ethics instruction student ethical decision making issues raised by advances in biotechnology role playing and its usefulness in teaching teaching faculty about ethics the special challenges of teaching ethics to practicing pharmacists adding a writing emphasis to your teaching The creative, fun, and engaging methods in this helpful manual provide fertile ground upon which you can develop a wider, more personal repertoire of pharmacy ethics instruction. So if the expiration date on your syllabus is five years old and it feels like your class or seminar is a medicine cabinet crammed with old bottles and pills, clean it out and start over with Teaching and Learning Strategies in Pharmacy Ethics. It?ll be just what the doctor ordered.
Download or read book Pharmacy Ethics written by Robert A. Buerki and published by American Pharmacists Association (APhA). This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pharmacy Ethics: A Foundation for Professional Practice provides a model for examining and resolving ethical dilemmas, thereby helping student pharmacists understand the ethical decision-making process in professional practice.
Download or read book Pharmaceutical Ethics and Health Care Access written by Richard George Boudreau and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fragmented health care industry combined with longer life expectancies is helping to push up the price of prescription drugs. While pharmaceutical manufacturers point to increased costs of research and development for higher prices, the truth is that big pharma and its allies operate in an environment of secrecy, with no rhyme or reason when it comes to charges. Richard George Boudreau explores why we find ourselves in such a predicament in this book. He raises several ethical concerns, chief among them being how much should actually be charged for drugs and whether the industry itself is behaving ethically. The author tackles questions such as: Who are the industry players and what role have each played in the crisis? How can we begin to solve the problem of high pharmaceutical costs? How are overpriced drugs affecting vulnerable populations and society at large? Solving the problem of high pharmaceutical costs won’t be easy, but if stakeholders get together and do their part, it can be done. Health care providers who write prescriptions for drugs as well as the patients who take those drugs, however, must play a major role in ensuring prices remain affordable.
Download or read book Pharmacy Ethics and Decision Making written by Joy Wingfield and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pharmacy Ethics and Decision Making is an introduction to professional ethics and accountability for practising pharmacists. It provides a grounding in moral philosophy and its application to key concepts such as human rights, consent, confidentiality and the care of vulnerable patients in pharmacy practice. It will also help pharmacists to debate and influence their involvement and positions on issues such as:* palliative care and the end of life* emergency contraception* new technologies in pharmacogenetics* use of animals in research* ethical issues in clinical trials* global aspects of pharmaceutical marketing.Written by one of the co-authors of Dale and Appelbe's Pharmacy Law and Ethics, and a healthcare philosopher, this book is aimed at students, pre-registration trainees and newly qualified pharmacists.Joy Wingfield is Boots Special Professor of Pharmacy Law and Ethics, University of Nottingham, UK.David Badcott is a retired Pharmacist, and a Member of the Centre for Applied Ethics of Cardiff University, UK.
Download or read book Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes written by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/AHRQ and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This User’s Guide is intended to support the design, implementation, analysis, interpretation, and quality evaluation of registries created to increase understanding of patient outcomes. For the purposes of this guide, a patient registry is an organized system that uses observational study methods to collect uniform data (clinical and other) to evaluate specified outcomes for a population defined by a particular disease, condition, or exposure, and that serves one or more predetermined scientific, clinical, or policy purposes. A registry database is a file (or files) derived from the registry. Although registries can serve many purposes, this guide focuses on registries created for one or more of the following purposes: to describe the natural history of disease, to determine clinical effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of health care products and services, to measure or monitor safety and harm, and/or to measure quality of care. Registries are classified according to how their populations are defined. For example, product registries include patients who have been exposed to biopharmaceutical products or medical devices. Health services registries consist of patients who have had a common procedure, clinical encounter, or hospitalization. Disease or condition registries are defined by patients having the same diagnosis, such as cystic fibrosis or heart failure. The User’s Guide was created by researchers affiliated with AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program, particularly those who participated in AHRQ’s DEcIDE (Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions About Effectiveness) program. Chapters were subject to multiple internal and external independent reviews.
