The Business Ethics Blog Lesson Plans:
Lesson 2: Pharma
Blog Entries:
- Pfizer's Unapproved Drug Tested on Nigerian Children (May 7, 2006)
- Pfizer says it did nothing wrong. Regarding an apparently falsified letter of approval from a hospital ethics committee...
- Pfizer says it did nothing wrong. Regarding an apparently falsified letter of approval from a hospital ethics committee...
- Pharma: Selling Cures or Selling Diseases? (April 14, 2006)
- India, Drug Trials, and So-Called Imperialism (April 28, 2006)
- Glenn McGee is a thoughtful guy, and I almost always find his arguments convincing.
In his recent column in The Scientist, he argues that the use (and abuse) of human research subjects in India by western pharmaceutical companies amounts to a kind of "imperialism."
- Glenn McGee is a thoughtful guy, and I almost always find his arguments convincing.
- Pharmaceutical Pricing ( March 12, 2006)
- How much should a given pharmaceutical cost? Should that be determined by supply and demand? By the value of the productive factors (raw materials, labour, overhead, etc.) that went into developing and manufacturing it? Or should cost be based on ability to pay, or some other criterion?...
- How much should a given pharmaceutical cost? Should that be determined by supply and demand? By the value of the productive factors (raw materials, labour, overhead, etc.) that went into developing and manufacturing it? Or should cost be based on ability to pay, or some other criterion?...
- Update: Wal-Mart & the Morning After Pill (March 05, 2006)
- Big Pharma & Drug Trials in Developing Nations (March 01, 2006)
- This is a story about drug companies conducting clinical trials in South Asia, using tens of thousands of poor Indians as "guinea pigs."...
- This is a story about drug companies conducting clinical trials in South Asia, using tens of thousands of poor Indians as "guinea pigs."...
- Truth, Fiction, and Wrongdoing in the Pharma Industry (February 26, 2006)
- Wal-Mart & the Morning After Pill (February 15, 2006)
- Under what circumstances should a company be legally forced to carry a particular product? A recent story says that Wal-Mart stores in Massachusetts are going to be forced to carry the "morning after" contraceptive pill...
- Under what circumstances should a company be legally forced to carry a particular product? A recent story says that Wal-Mart stores in Massachusetts are going to be forced to carry the "morning after" contraceptive pill...
- Pharmaceutical companies: MOST Ethical?! (January 12, 2006)
- Gotta admit, I'm at a loss for words...If anyone has any thoughts on how companies in a nearly-universally-villified industry end up getting top marks for ethics, let me know....
- Gotta admit, I'm at a loss for words...If anyone has any thoughts on how companies in a nearly-universally-villified industry end up getting top marks for ethics, let me know....
- Ethics problems in Pharma (December 19, 2005)
- A recent op-ed piece in the New York times called "Drugs, Devices and Doctors" points out that conflicts of interest are the norm, rather than the exception, in the medical devices and pharmaceutical industries. In the piece, editorialist Paul Krugman argues that "growing conflicts of interest may be distorting both medical research and health care in general."...
- A recent op-ed piece in the New York times called "Drugs, Devices and Doctors" points out that conflicts of interest are the norm, rather than the exception, in the medical devices and pharmaceutical industries. In the piece, editorialist Paul Krugman argues that "growing conflicts of interest may be distorting both medical research and health care in general."...
- Ethics in Pharma Marketing (December 13, 2005)
- Pharmaceutical advertising (including advertising to health care professionals, as well as direct-to-consumer advertising) raises a number of ethical issues.
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