Commercial pharmaceutical companies have been much criticised for their activities yet, at the same time, there is relatively little ethical information available to those working in the industry. This book addresses this need and develops pharmaceutical ethics as a field independent to medical ethics in general.

The basis of ethics / Jon Merrills -- Principles of ethics focusing on the patient / Andrew Edgar -- Ethical rationalism applied to pharmaceuticals / R.P. Dessing -- The ethics of the drug discovery and development process / Roger G. Bolton -- Informed consent : reconsideration of its structure and role in medicine / Jan Payne -- Clinical trials of pharmaceuticals : ethical aspects / Olivier Chassany, Martin Duracinsky and Isabelle Mahé -- Can we afford the medicines we need : an ethical dilemma? / Roger Walker -- Physician choice or patient choice : ethical dilemmas in science and politics / Andrew Edgar -- The economics of drug-related morbidity and mortality : ethical considerations / J. Lyle Bootman and Amy J. Grizzle -- Holistic approach in choice of pharmaceutical agents : ethical responsibilities / Sam Salek -- Ethical values in the treatment of depression and anxiety / John Lilja [and others] -- Ethical promotion and advertising of medicines : where do we draw the line? / Ivor Harrison -- Ethical problems of drug categorization for reimbursement / Chris Good.