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