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Informationen zum Autor Denis G. Arnold is Surtman Distinguished Professor of Business Ethics at Belk College of Business! University of North Carolina! Charlotte and Senior Associate! Center for Applied and Professional Ethics! University of Tennessee! Knoxville. He is author of The Ethics of Global Business (2009) and co-editor of Ethical Theory and Business! 8th Edition (2009) and Rising Above Sweatshops: Innovative Approaches to Global Labor Challenges (2003). Klappentext Distinguished scholars of bioethics and business ethics discuss justice in relation to business-friendly strategies in the delivery of health care. Zusammenfassung The twentieth century saw sweeping changes in health care worldwide! from pharmaceuticals! to new technologies! to increasing health care costs in industrialised nations. These essays examine costs and profits in relation to just health care! the often controversial practices of pharmaceutical companies! and corruption in the professional practice of medicine. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, 1. Medicine and the market Daniel Callahan; 2. Broken promises: do business friendly strategies frustrate just health care? Norman Daniels; 3. Are patents an efficient and internationally fair means of funding research and development for new medicines? Paul Menzel; 4. The exploitation of the economically disadvantaged in pharmaceutical research disclosure Tom L. Beauchamp; 5. The dangers of detailing: how pharmaceutical marketing threatens health care Jason Hubbard; 6. The ethics of direct to consumer pharmaceutical advertising Denis G. Arnold; 7. Industry-funded bioethics and the limits of disclosure Carl Elliott; 8. Two cheers for the pharmaceutical industry Richard T. De George; 9. The third face of medicine: ethics and business and challenges to professionalism Mary V. Rorty, Patricia Werhane, and Ann Mills; 10. Theoretical foundations for an organizational ethics: developing norms for a new kind of health care George Khushf; 11. A crisis in medical professionalism: time for Flexner II Daniel Wikler; Bibliography; Index....
