Ethics and the business of biomedicine /

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Imprint:Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Description:ix, 291 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7790030
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Other authors / contributors:Arnold, Denis Gordon.
ISBN:0521764319 (hbk.)
9780521764315 (hbk.)
9780521748223 (pbk.)
0521748224 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-282) and index.
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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 industrialised 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 organisations operating in a global marketplace, and recommend pragmatic solutions to enhance organisational integrity and curb medical corruption in the interest of patient welfare.
Physical Description:ix, 291 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-282) and index.
ISBN:0521764319
9780521764315
9780521748223
0521748224