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Pharmacy Ethics and Decision Making
Wingfield, Joy; Badcott, David
First edition
Joy Wingfield - Professor of Pharmacy Law and Ethics, University of Nottingham and David Badcott - Health care philosopher and retired pharmacist, Centre for Applied Ethics, Cardiff University
Foreword by Gordon E Appelbe
Pharmacy Ethics and Decision Making is an introduction to professional ethics and accountability for practicing pharmacists.
It provides a grounding in moral philosophy and its application to key concepts such as human rights, consent, confidentiality and the care of vulnerable patients in pharmacy practice. It will also help pharmacists to debate and influence their involvement and positions on issues such as:
- palliative care and the end of life
- emergency contraception
- new technologies in pharmacogenetics
- use of animals in research
- ethical issues in clinical trials
- global aspects of pharmaceutical marketing.
Written by one of the co-authors of Dale and Appelbe's Pharmacy Law and Ethics, and a healthcare philosopher, this book is aimed at students, pre-registration trainees and newly qualified pharmacists.
1. Ethical Theory
2. Key Moral Concepts in Healthcare
3. Moral Reasoning
4. Professionalism and Accountability
5. The Professional Decision Making Process
6. Ethics in Practice
7. Worked Examples of Decision Making
'This book is clearly written and should be readable by its intended audiences, ranging from pharmacy students to practising pharmacists. It could provide an excellent framework for an undergraduate course in pharmacy ethics...it could also serve well as a resource for pharmacists' self-directed learning.'
Joan A Marshman, Professor Emerita, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto. C JHP Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists. Vol. 61, No. 2, March-April 2008
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