Drugs, Ethics, and Quality of Life

Cases and Materials on Ethical, Legal, and Public Policy Dilemmas in Medicine and Pharmacy Practice

Buch | Hardcover

344 Seiten

2007
Informa Healthcare (Verlag)
978-0-7890-2856-3 (ISBN)

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Weigh pivotal healthcare ethics, law, and public policy issues that resulted in tipping-point legal actionsWeighing 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, bioethicists, students interested in bioethics, institutional ethics committee members, and anyone interested in bioethics.

Bruce D. White

Foreword (Kenneth V. Iserson) Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Pellegrino on Professionalism: A Human Values Basis for the Healing Arts Appendix: Principles of Medical Ethics of the American Medical Association (2001) Special Additional Introduction: Ethics and a Code of Ethics in Pharmacy Practice (Joseph L. Fink III) Appendix: Code of Ethics for Pharmacists of the American Pharmacists Association (1994) PART I: FOUNDATIONAL BASICS Chapter 1. Tobacco and Choices: How Values and Definitions Impact Decision Making FDA’s 1996 Tobacco Regulations and FDA v. Brown & Williamson Definitions Continuing Dilemmas with Tobacco Chapter 2. COX-2 Inhibitors and Conflict: How Balancing Beneficence and Nonmaleficence Influences Decision Making COX-2 Inhibitors and Their Effects The FDA’s Drug Approval Process and VIOXX A Balancing Act: Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, and Profit and Other Motives Cost-Benefit Analysis, Stakeholders, and Issues Management Analysis Continuing Dilemmas with COX-2 Inhibitors Chapter 3. Marijuana, Individual Liberty, and Police Power: How Autonomy Drives Decision Making Marijuana Marijuana Control in the United States Personal Freedom, Autonomy, and the California Compassionate Use Act State Police Power and Federalism: Gonzales v. Raich Continuing Dilemmas with Medical Marijuana Appendix: Examples of California’s Criminal Statutes Controlling Marijuana Calif. Health & Safety Code §§ 11357 and 11358 Chapter 4. The Morning-After Pill and Systematic Ethics and Public Policy Analysis: How Justice Tempers Decision Making Emergency Contraceptives and Rights Balancing Rights: Ethics and Public Policy Ju

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.2007
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-7890-2856-5 / 0789028565
ISBN-13	978-0-7890-2856-3 / 9780789028563
Zustand	Neuware