Drugs, Ethics, and Quality of Life: Cases and Materials on Ethical, Legal, and Public Policy Dilemmas in Medicine and Pharmacy Practice / Edition 1

Drugs, Ethics, and Quality of Life: Cases and Materials on Ethical, Legal, and Public Policy Dilemmas in Medicine and Pharmacy Practice / Edition 1

by Bruce White
ISBN-10:
0789028565
ISBN-13:
9780789028563
Pub. Date:
11/05/2007
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
0789028565
ISBN-13:
9780789028563
Pub. Date:
11/05/2007
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Drugs, Ethics, and Quality of Life: Cases and Materials on Ethical, Legal, and Public Policy Dilemmas in Medicine and Pharmacy Practice / Edition 1

Drugs, Ethics, and Quality of Life: Cases and Materials on Ethical, Legal, and Public Policy Dilemmas in Medicine and Pharmacy Practice / Edition 1

by Bruce White
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Overview

Weigh pivotal healthcare ethics, law, and public policy issues that resulted in tipping-point legal actions

Weighing 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780789028563
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 11/05/2007
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 344
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Bruce D. White

Table of Contents

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

What People are Saying About This

David B. Brushwood

THE BOOK FOR WHICH TEACHERS OF PHARMACY LAW AND ETHICS HAVE WAITED OVER THE PAST DECADE, as the concept of pharmaceutical care has evolved, and as pharmacy education has come to embrace problem-solving and critical thinking. . . . COMPREHENSIVE, INSIGHTFUL, AND CHALLENGING. . . . Takes on some of the most pressing social issues of the day, analyzing them from a perspective of traditional principle-based ethics, with a firm grasp of the responsibilities individual pharmacists have to the profession, society, patients, and themselves. . . . Can be effectively used as the basis for teaching students the nature of legal and ethical problems in patient care and also the process to use in addressing those problems. . . . A ROADMAP FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF PHARMACY LAW AND ETHICS as intellectually stimulating advanced college level coursework. (David B. Brushwood, RPh, JD, Professor of Pharmacy Health Care Administration, University of Florida)

Griffin Trotter

BRUCE WHITE IS THE CONSUMMATE CLINICAL ETHICIST and perhaps the only scholar who could so dramatically vivify the triad of drugs, ethics and quality of life. . . . Liberates us from the usual unproductive, abstract 'methods,' offering instead a succession of thoughtful, provocative, and refreshingly non-partisan reflections on important legal cases. . . . Essential reading not only for students, but for practicing pharmacists, clinicians, bioethicists, health lawyers, pharmaceutical executives, public health workers, hospital administrators, and any person interested in learning how much fun serious inquiry can be. (Griffin Trotter, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University)

G. Caleb Alexander

Dr. White's analyses combine KEEN INSIGHTS from ethics and law with the perspective of a health care provider at the bedside . . . Nowhere are the ethical and legal dilemmas of health care more apparent than in the settings that Bruce White examines. . . . THOUGHTFUL, IN-DEPTH ANALYSES. . . . Uses a rich selection of examples to probe the rights and obligations that physicians and pharmacists have in a decidedly second-best world. (G. Caleb Alexander, MD, MS, University of Chicago)

Alvin H. Moss

DISCUSSION OF EACH TOPIC IS WELL BALANCED AND COMPREHENSIVELY REFERENCED. . . . Of value to all who have an interest in healthcare ethics. In particular students and professionals in the field of medicine and pharmacy will find it USEFUL because it is a source of carefully reasoned arguments addressing the major ethical issues of the day with excellent references for further reading. (Alvin H. Moss, MD, FACP, Professor of Medicine and Director, West Virginia University Center for Health Ethics and Law)

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