Profits before people?
Subtitle: ethical standards and the marketing of prescription drugs
By: Leonard J. Weber.
Series: Bioethics and the humanities
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Pharmaceutical industry -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States; Marketing -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States; Drug Industry -- ethics -- United States; Drug Industry -- economics -- United States; Marketing -- ethics -- United States; Pharmaceutical Preparations -- United States
Description: Includes information on advertising, conflicts of interest, cost of pharmaceuticals, direct to consumer advertising, advertising to patients, Pfizer, pricing of pharmaceuticals, profit motive, samples of pharmaceuticals, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ethics and for-profit business; title: The pharmaceutical industry and its stakeholders; title: Drug companies and healthcare professionals : the ethics agenda; title: Medical professionalism and scientific integrity; title: The industry's code : not good enough; title: Drug samples : the most important gifts; title: Marketing is not objective education; title: Medical education : industry at arm's length; title: Clinical research and the limits of commercial interests; title: Citizens and consumers; title: Direct-to-consumer advertising : conflicting interests; title: Direct-to-consumer advertising : better is better.