Screen LibraryPharmaceutical freedom : why patients have a right to self-medicate /
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.
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
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. |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 263 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-252) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780190684549 (hardcover) : 0190684542 (hardcover) |
| Index Number: | RA401 |
| CLC: |
D971.221.6 R951 |
| Call Number: | R951/F585 |
| Contents: |
A defense of self-medication -- Paternalism and public health -- Rethinking prescription requirements -- Responsibility and regulation -- The politics of self-medication -- The business of medicine -- Medical autonomy and modern healthcare -- |