cases and materials on ethical, legal, and public policy dilemmas in medicine and pharmacy practice /
First Statement of Responsibility
Bruce D. White
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Pharmaceutical Products Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2007
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxiv, 320 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill. ;
Dimensions
22 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-298) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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