Pharmaceutical Ethics

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
* Looks at a wide variety of subjects connected with pharmaceutical ethics.
* Focuses specifically on the issues surrounding the pharmaceutical industry, not medicine in general.
* Fulfils an important need in the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Pharmaceutical Ethics is an important text, which aims to provide ethical guidelines much needed by the pharmaceutical industry. The book covers ethical issues involved in the testing and use of pharmaceuticals on humans, focusing extensively on the issues surrounding the pharmaceutical industry and not medicine in general.

Topics covered include:

* Ethics of the drug discovery and development process

* Informed consent

* Ethical promotion and advertising of medicines

* Ethical aspects of clinical trials

This text responds to an important need in the pharmaceutical industry and should be read by all within that industry as well as by health care ethicists and pharmacy and medical practitioners and students.