Ethics and the Business of Biomedicine

During the last thirty years we have witnessed sweeping changes in health care worldwide, including new and expensive biomedical technologies, an increasingly powerful and influential pharmaceutical industry, steadily increasing health care costs in industrialised nations, and new threats to medical professionalism. The essays collected in this book concern costs and profits in relation to just health care, the often controversial practices of pharmaceutical companies, and corruption in the professional practice of medicine. Leading experts discuss justice in relation to business-friendly strategies in the delivery of health care, access to life saving drugs, the ethics of pharmaceutical company marketing practices, exploitation in drug trials, and undue industry influence over medicine. They offer guidance regarding the ethical delivery of health care products and services by profit-seeking organisations operating in a global marketplace, and recommend pragmatic solutions to enhance organisational integrity and curb medical corruption in the interest of patient welfare.

Author: Denis G. Arnold
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 06/01/2009
Pages: 302
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780521748223

About the Author
Arnold, Denis G.: - 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).