Pharmaceutical ethics [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Sam Salek, Andrew Edgar

• Pubblicazione: New York, : J. Wiley, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (212 p.)
• Disciplina: 174.2; 174/.2
• Soggetto topico: Pharmaceutical ethics; Medical ethics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: SalekSam EdgarAndrew
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Pharmaceutical Ethics; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Foreword; 1 The Basis of Ethics; 2 Principles of Ethics Focusing on the Patient; 3 Ethical Rationalism Applied to Pharmaceuticals; 4 The Ethics of the Drug Discovery and Development Process; 5 Informed Consent: Reconsideration of its Structure and Role in Medicine; 6 Clinical Trials of Pharmaceuticals: Ethical Aspects; 7 Can we Afford the Medicines we Need: An Ethical Dilemma?; 8 Physician Choice or Patient Choice: Ethical Dilemmas in Science and Politics ; 9 The Economics of Drug-Related Morbidity and Mortality: Ethical Considerations10 Holistic Approach in Choice of Pharmaceutical Agents: Ethical Responsibilities; 11 Ethical Values in the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety; 12 Ethical Promotion and Advertising of Medicines: Where do we Draw the Line?; 13 Ethical Problems of Drug Categorization for Reimbursement; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Pharmaceutical ethics
• ISBN: 1-280-04371-7; 9786610043712; 0-470-35320-1; 0-470-85581-9; 0-470-85582-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910142495803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II