Pharmaceutical Ethics

Author: Sam Salek  

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc‎

Publication year: 2003

E-ISBN: 9780470855812

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780471490579

Subject: R9 Pharmacy

Language: ENG

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Description

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.

Chapter

Contents

pp.:  7 – 9

List of Contributors

pp.:  9 – 11

Preface

pp.:  11 – 13

Foreword

pp.:  13 – 15

1 The Basis of Ethics

pp.:  15 – 27

2 Principles of Ethics Focusing on the Patient

pp.:  27 – 41

3 Ethical Rationalism Applied to Pharmaceuticals

pp.:  41 – 59

4 The Ethics of the Drug Discovery and Development Process

pp.:  59 – 75

5 Informed Consent: Reconsideration of its Structure and Role in Medicine

pp.:  75 – 85

6 Clinical Trials of Pharmaceuticals: Ethical Aspects

pp.:  85 – 105

7 Can we Afford the Medicines we Need: An Ethical Dilemma?

pp.:  105 – 111

8 Physician Choice or Patient Choice: Ethical Dilemmas in Science and Politics

pp.:  111 – 125

9 The Economics of Drug-Related Morbidity and Mortality: Ethical Considerations

pp.:  125 – 137

10 Holistic Approach in Choice of Pharmaceutical Agents: Ethical Responsibilities

pp.:  137 – 151

11 Ethical Values in the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety

pp.:  151 – 175

12 Ethical Promotion and Advertising of Medicines: Where do we Draw the Line?

pp.:  175 – 193

13 Ethical Problems of Drug Categorization for Reimbursement

pp.:  193 – 205

Index

pp.:  205 – 212

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