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Title Bioindustry ethics / David L. Finegold [and others]
Published Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 368 pages)
Contents Preface -- Introduction -- Leadership -- Starting Right -- Ethics in an Emerging Field -- Getting Advice -- Self-Assessment -- Endnotes
Summary This book is the first systematic, detailed treatment of the approaches to ethical issues taken by biotech and pharmaceutical companies. The application of genetic/genomic technologies raises a whole spectrum of ethical questions affecting global health that must be addressed. Topics covered in this comprehensive survey include considerations for bioprospecting in transgenics, genomics, drug discovery, and nutrigenomics, as well as how to improve stakeholder relations, design ethical clinical trials, avoid conflicts of interest, and establish ethics advisory boards. The expert authors represent multiple disciplines including law, medicine, bioinformatics, pharmaceutics, business, and ethics
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Biotechnology industries -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Case studies
Pharmaceutical industry -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Case studies
Business ethics -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Case studies
Bioethics.
Business ethics -- Case studies
Bioethics
Biotechnology -- ethics
Drug Industry -- ethics
Ethics, Business
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
Business ethics
Bioethics
Biotechnology industries -- Moral and ethical aspects
Pharmaceutical industry -- Moral and ethical aspects
Genre/Form dissertations.
Case studies
Case studies.
Academic theses.
Études de cas.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Finegold, David.
ISBN 9780123693709
0123693705
9780080492513
0080492517
1281005339
9781281005335