Pharmacy Ethics
by Smith, Mickey C.; Strauss, Steven; Baldwin, H. John; Alberts, Kelly T.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1991-04-01
Publisher(s): CRC Pr I Llc
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Summary
Concerns ethics in the practice of pharmacy. Among the topics discussed are controversial subjects, such as the abortion pill, euthanasia, mail order pharmacies, commercialism, drug substitution, human experimentation and patient rights
Table of Contents
| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Readings in Pharmacy Ethics | |
| Introduction | |
| Background | |
| Pharmaceutical Ethics | p. 5 |
| Pharmacy Ethics I: Rationale and Perpetuation | p. 20 |
| Pharmacy Ethics II: Development of Pharmacy's Code | p. 24 |
| Theoretical Considerations | |
| The Professional's Responsibility | p. 29 |
| Bioethics and Health Ethics: A Critical Examination of the New Terminology | p. 34 |
| Ethics and the Law | |
| Studies of the Ethical and Legal Problems in Medicine | p. 37 |
| The Dependence of Law on Ethics | p. 52 |
| Law and Ethics in Practice | p. 55 |
| The Pharmacist as a Good Samaritan | p. 65 |
| Codes of Ethics | |
| A Code of Ethics for Pharmacy | p. 69 |
| American Pharmaceutical Association Code of Ethics | p. 74 |
| Code of Ethics of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists | p. 76 |
| Revised Hippocratic Oath | p. 79 |
| Ethics, Education and Students | |
| Policy Recommendation on Ethics Teaching | p. 81 |
| Ethical Behavior | p. 84 |
| If All Pharmacists Were Ethical | p. 86 |
| Social Values and Ethics | |
| Definitions | |
| A Definition of Health | p. 93 |
| The WHO Definition of "Health" | p. 95 |
| Sanctions | |
| Disguising Morals as Medicine | p. 105 |
| Persuasion and Coercion for Health | p. 109 |
| Who Shall Live | p. 131 |
| Health Police | p. 138 |
| Beyond the Supreme Court Ruling on Alcoholism as Willful Misconduct: It Is up to Congress to Act | p. 143 |
| Policy Issues | |
| AIDS in Context: Ethical and Social Implications | p. 146 |
| The Drug Lag | p. 157 |
| Can Progress Be Bought? | p. 161 |
| Old Age and New Policy | p. 165 |
| Options to Control the Rising Health Care Costs of Older Americans | p. 171 |
| Health Care Delivery | |
| Economics and Social Issues | |
| Drugs and the Right to Happiness | p. 179 |
| Voluntary Risks to Health: The Ethical Issues | p. 191 |
| Quality Medical Care: A Definition | p. 203 |
| Drug Rationing | p. 218 |
| Right to Health | |
| The Right to Health Care - Gains and Gaps | p. 223 |
| Medicaid "Boycotts": Economics and Ethics in Conflict | p. 243 |
| Patient Rights | |
| A Patient's Bill of Rights | p. 249 |
| Consumer's Bill of Rights | p. 252 |
| The Pharmacist and the Patient's Rights Movement | p. 253 |
| Prescription Drugs and the Rights of the Individual | p. 257 |
| Social Issues | |
| Death and Dying | |
| Capital Punishment and the Responsible Pharmacist | p. 263 |
| ELT: Exotic Lifesaving Therapy | p. 267 |
| Life-Sustaining Treatment: Refusing It, Withdrawing It, Withholding It, Maintaining It | p. 271 |
| Should Doctors Kill Patients? | p. 284 |
| Contraception and Abortion | |
| Bioethical Decision Making | p. 287 |
| The Abortion Pill | p. 298 |
| The Sexual Revolution and the Pill | p. 302 |
| The Pill for Men | p. 307 |
| Mind Control | |
| The Use of Psychotropic Drugs in State Hospitals: A Legal or Medical Decision? | p. 313 |
| Mind Boggling | p. 319 |
| The Search for a Safe Intoxicant | p. 323 |
| Too Many Tranquilizers? | p. 328 |
| Too Few Tranquilizers? | p. 333 |
| Applications to Medications and Pharmacy Practice | |
| Pharmacist/Patient Relations | |
| Applying Ethics to Community Pharmacy Practice | p. 343 |
| Labeling Patients and Prescriptions | p. 356 |
| The Prescription as a Legitimation of Failure | p. 360 |
| Fear and the Patient | p. 365 |
| Profession Or Business? | |
| Commercialism in Pharmacy - Who's Responsible? | p. 369 |
| Business Ethics in Consultant Pharmacy | p. 371 |
| Cigarette Sales and Smoking in Pharmacies, Health Facilities and Health Agencies | p. 378 |
| Pharmacists and Tobacco | p. 380 |
| Promotion and Selling of Unnecessary Food Supplements: Quackery or Ethical Pharmacy Practice? | p. 385 |
| Medications and Their Uses | |
| Ethical Consideration in Human Experimentation | p. 391 |
| Drugs and Sports | p. 409 |
| New Pharmaceuticals from Genetic Engineering | p. 414 |
| Human Experimentation - Is it Ethical? | p. 418 |
| Pharmacists' Decisions | |
| Substitution as "Gross Immorality" | p. 423 |
| Therapeutic Drug Interchange: The Battle Heats Up! | p. 431 |
| The Pharmacist's Dilemma: Drug Product Selection Using Bioavailability Data | p. 437 |
| Is Mail Order Pharmacy Ethical? No, Says APhA Judicial Board | p. 440 |
| Is Mail Order Pharmacy Ethical? Yes, Says Kansas City Pharmacist | p. 442 |
| Ethical Reasoning in Pharmacy | |
| Cases and Commentary | |
| Detailed Cases and Commentary | |
| Introduction | p. 451 |
| Mary Jones Patient Package Insert | p. 456 |
| Disguising Decreases in Prednisone Dosage | p. 464 |
| Mary M. and Generic Drugs | p. 472 |
| Keith Rutledge: Patient Stockpiling Medication | p. 477 |
| Joan Johnson and Adolescent Confidentiality | p. 484 |
| Sam Coldridge and Kickbacks | p. 493 |
| Employee Rights and Obligations | p. 500 |
| Joe W.: Psychotropic Drugs | p. 506 |
| Sherman K. Jones and Lethal Injection | p. 514 |
| Kim Sherwood: Physician Dispensing | p. 521 |
| Brief Cases | |
| Advertising Prescription Drugs to the Public | p. 527 |
| Retin-A and Chain Advertising | p. 528 |
| Refilling Controlled Drug Prescriptions | p. 529 |
| DMSO | p. 531 |
| Substitution and Welfare Prescriptions | p. 531 |
| Non-Approved Uses | p. 532 |
| "Skimming" on Third Party Prescriptions | p. 533 |
| Refusal of Treatment | p. 534 |
| Non-Approved Uses | p. 534 |
| Confidentiality of Records | p. 534 |
| Refill Policy | p. 535 |
| Medicaid Formulary Decisions | p. 535 |
| Refilling Prescriptions from Another Pharmacy | p. 535 |
| Abortion Pill | p. 536 |
| Impaired Pharmacist | p. 536 |
| Index | p. 539 |
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