Ethics and the business of biomedicine / edited by Denis G. Arnold.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arnold, Denis Gordon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics.

Bioethics.

Business ethics.

Physical Description:

ix, 291 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Summary:

During the last thirty years we have witnessed sweeping changes in health care worldwide, including new and expensive biomedical technologies, an increasingly powerful and influential pharmaceutical industry, steadily increasing health care costs in industrialized nations, and new threats to medical professionalism. The essays collected in this book concern costs and profits in relation to just health care, the often controversial practices of pharmaceutical companies, and corruption in the professional practice of medicine. Leading experts discuss justice in relation to business-friendly strategies in the delivery of health care, access to life-saving drugs, the ethics of pharmaceutical company marketing practices, exploitation in drug trials, and undue industry influence over medicine. They offer guidance regarding the ethical delivery of health care products and services by profit-seeking organizations operating in a global marketplace, and recommend pragmatic solutions to enhance organizational integrity and curb medical corruption in the interest of patient welfare.

Contents:

Introduction 1

1 Medicine and the market / Daniel Callahan 20

2 Broken promises: do business-friendly strategies frustrate just healthcare? / Norman Daniels 35

3 Are patents an efficient and internationally fair means of funding research & development for new medicines? / Paul T. Menzel 62

4 The exploitation of the economically disadvantaged in pharmaceutical research / Tom L. Beauchamp 83

5 The dangers of detailing: how pharmaceutical marketing threatens healthcare / Jason E. Hubbard 103

6 The ethics of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising / Denis G. Arnold 131

7 Industry-funded bioethics and the limits of disclosure / Carl Elliott 150

8 Two cheers for the pharmaceutical industry / Richard T. De George 169

9 The third face of medicine: ethics, business and challenges to professionalism / Mary Rorty, Patricia Werhane, Ann Mills 198

10 Theoretical foundations for organizational ethics: developing norms for a new kind of healthcare / George Khushf 220

11 A crisis in medical professionalism: time for Flexner II / Daniel Wikler 249.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-282) and index.

ISBN:

0521764319

9780521764315

9780521748223

0521748224

OCLC:

299718434

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