Pharmacists - Ethics
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Understanding pharmacists' values: a qualitative study of ideals and dilemmas in UK pharmacy practice.

2 May 2009 Pharmacy, like other health care professions, is both a knowledge-based and a value-based profession. However, the values that inform practice activities are rarely made explicit. We sought to identify the values drawn on by UK pharmacists through ... Read more...

'Islands' and 'doctor's tool': the ethical significance of isolation and subordination in UK community pharmacy.

29 Apr 2009 Empirical ethics research is increasingly valued in offering insights into how ethical problems and decision-making occur in healthcare. In this article, the findings of a qualitative study of the ethical problems and decision-making of UK community ... Read more...

Dispensing with conscience: a legal and ethical assessment.

19 Oct 2008 BACKGROUND: For over 30 years, pharmacists have exercised the right to dispense medications in accordance with moral convictions based upon a Judeo-Christian ethic. What many of these practitioners see as an apparent shift away from this ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Pharmacists - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Understanding pharmacists' values: a qualitative study of ideals and dilemmas in UK pharmacy practice. 2 May 2009
• 'Islands' and 'doctor's tool': the ethical significance of isolation and subordination in UK community pharmacy. 29 Apr 2009
• Pharmacy vision and leadership: revisiting the fundamentals. 29 Nov 2008
• Pharmacists and execution. 29 Nov 2008
• Dispensing with conscience: a legal and ethical assessment. 19 Oct 2008
• Emergency contraception: when the pharmacist conscience clause restricts access. 30 Jul 2008
• Pharmacist conscience clauses and access to oral contraceptives. 29 Jun 2008
• Conscientious objectors...a new generation? 28 Feb 2008
• Pharmacists and industry: guidelines for ethical interactions. 28 Feb 2008
• The conscience clause in American pharmacy: an historical overview. 30 Dec 2007
• Conscientious refusal by physicians and pharmacists: who is obligated to do what, and why? 30 Dec 2007
• The role of moral complicity in issues of conscience. 29 Nov 2007
• Healthcare without conscience--unconscionable! 14 Oct 2007
• Pharmacy residents' attitudes toward pharmaceutical industry promotion. 13 Aug 2007
• When 'emergency contraception' is neither. 30 Jul 2007
• Ethics, law, and the emergence of pharmacists' responsibility for patient care. 24 Jun 2007
• Moral disagreement and providing emergency contraception: a pluralistic alternative. 30 May 2007
• Conscientious objection the morning after. 30 May 2007
• Conscientious objection: does the zero-probability argument work? 30 May 2007
• When to grant conscientious objector status. 30 May 2007

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Technical information about 'Pharmacists'

Definition: Those persons legally qualified by education and training to engage in the practice of pharmacy.

Descriptor UI: D010595

Alternative terms: Pharmacists; Pharmacist; Clinical Pharmacists; Clinical Pharmacist; Pharmacist, Clinical; Pharmacists, Clinical;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; psychology;

Tree Number: M01.526.485.780; N02.360.780;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: IM