Drugs, Ethics, and Quality of Life: Cases and Materials on Ethical, Legal, and Public Policy Dilemmas in Medicine and Pharmacy Practice [Paperback]

Bruce D. White (Author), Gretchen A. Fair (Introduction), Joseph L. Fink III (Introduction), John Lachs (Afterword), Kenneth V. Iserson (Foreword)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0789028573 | ISBN-13: 978-0789028570 | Publication Date: October 1, 2007 | Edition: 1

Weighing the ethical considerations in healthcare and drug issues can be emotionally difficult and mentally challenging. Drugs, Ethics, and Quality of Life: Cases and Materials on Ethical, Legal, and Public Policy Dilemmas in Medicine and Pharmacy Practice is a fascinating casebook that clearly discusses the most contentious ethical conflicts that resulted in legal actions. This easy-to-read text provides all sides of controversial real-life cases that provoke spirited debate while teaching the fundamentals of pharmacy law and ethics. The book is a unique exploration into the basic principles of bioethics, end of life care, and drug research.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Bruce White is the consummate clinical ethicist and perhaps the only scholar who could so dramatically vivify the triad of drugs, ethics and quality of life. . . . Liberates us from the usual unproductive, abstract 'methods,' offering instead a succession of thoughtful, provocative, and refreshingly non-partisan reflections on important legal cases. . . . Essential reading not only for students, but for practicing pharmacists, clinicians, bioethicists, health lawyers, pharmaceutical executives, public health workers, hospital administrators, and any person interested in learning how much fun serious inquiry can be." -- Griffin Trotter, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University

"Discussion of each topic is well balanced and comprehensively referenced... Of value to all who have an interest in healthcare ethics. In particular students and professionals in the field of medicine and pharmacy will find it useful because it is a source of carefully reasoned arguments addressing the major ethical issues of the day with excellent references for further reading." -- Alvin H. Moss, MD, FACP, Professor of Medicine and Director, West Virginia University Center for Health

"Dr. White's analyses combine keen insights from ethics and law with the perspective of a health care provider at the bedside... Nowhere are the ethical and legal dilemmas of health care more apparent than in the settings that Bruce White examines... Thoughtful, in-depth analyses... Uses a rich selection of examples to probe the rights and obligations that physicians and pharmacists have in a decidedly second-best world." -- G. Caleb Alexander, MD, MS, University of Chicago

"The book for which teachers of pharmacy law and ethics have waited over the past decade, as the concept of pharmaceutical care has evolved, and as pharmacy education has come to embrace problem-solving and critical thinking... Comprehensive, insightful, and challenging... Takes on some of the most pressing social issues of the day, analyzing them from a perspective of traditional principle-based ethics, with a firm grasp of the responsibilities individual pharmacists have to the profession, society, patients, and themselves... Can be effectively used as the basis for teaching students the nature of legal and ethical problems in patient care and also the process to use in addressing those problems... A roadmap for the organization of pharmacy law and ethics as intellectually stimulating advanced college level coursework." -- David B. Brushwood, RPh, JD --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Bruce D. White, DO, JD, is a pharmacist, a board-certified pediatrician, and an attorney with fellowship training in clinical medical ethics. He came to St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona from Nashville, Tennessee in March 2004 to join the general pediatrics residency faculty. Presently he serves as academic chair of the pediatrics department and directs the clinical ethics fellowship program for the hospital. He holds faculty appointments as Clinical Professor of Pediatrics in the University of Arizona College of Medicine and Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Science in the College of Pharmacy, Tucson, Arizona; and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska. He also serves as Professor and Director of the campus-wide, interdisciplinary Healthcare Ethics and Law (HEaL) Institute at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. that offers online clinical ethics coaching, mentoring, and educational services to a pilot group of hospitals and ethics committee members nationwide

Product Details

• Paperback: 324 pages
• Publisher: Pharmaceutical Products Press; 1 edition (October 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789028573
• ISBN-13: 978-0789028570
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,291,995 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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