Profits before people? : ethical standards and the marketing of prescription drugs / Leonard J. Weber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weber, Leonard J., 1942-

Series:

Bioethics and the humanities.

Bioethics and the humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pharmaceutical industry--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Pharmaceutical industry.

Marketing--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Marketing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 physician

Contents:

Ethics and for-profit business

The pharmaceutical industry and its stakeholders

Drug companies and healthcare professionals : the ethics agenda

Medical professionalism and scientific integrity

The industry's code : not good enough

Drug samples : the most important gifts

Marketing is not objective education

Medical education : industry at arm's length

Clinical research and the limits of commercial interests

Citizens and consumers

Direct-to-consumer advertising : conflicting interests

Direct-to-consumer advertising : better is better.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-197) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-07290-0

9786612072901

0-253-11210-9

OCLC:

476041167