cases and materials on ethical, legal, and public policy dilemmas in medicine and pharmacy practice /
Bruce D. White
New York :
Pharmaceutical Products Press,
c2007
xxiv, 320 p. :
ill. ;
22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-298) and index
Tobacco and choices: how values and definitions impact decision making -- COX-2 inhibitors and conflict: how balancing beneficence and nonmaleficence influences decision making -- Marijuana, individual liberty, and police power: how autonomy drives decision making -- The "morning-after" pill and systematic ethics and public policy analysis: how justice tempers decision making -- Pain medicines and palliative care drugs -- Drugs used for assisted suicide -- Drug use in "dwindling" patients and in medically futile situations -- Gene therapy and experimentation