Jessica Flanigan

Pharmaceutical Freedom

Why Patients Have a Right to Self Medicate

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Produktbeschreibung

Jessica Flanigan defends patients' rights of self-medication on the grounds that same moral reasons against medical paternalism in clinical contexts are also reasons against paternalistic pharmaceutical policies, including prohibitive approval processes and prescription requirements.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780190684549
• ISBN-10: 0190684542
• Artikelnr.: 48207202

Autorenporträt

Jessica Flanigan is an Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law at the University of Richmond.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: A Defense of Self-Medication
Chapter 2 Paternalism and Public Health
Chapter 3 Rethinking Prescription Requirements
Chapter 4 Responsibility and Regulation
Chapter 5 The Politics of Self Medication
Chapter 6 The Business of Medicine
Chapter 7 Medical Autonomy and Modern Healthcare
Conclusion
References