Drugs, ethics, and quality of life : cases and materials on ethical, legal, and public policy dilemmas in medicine and pharmacy practice / Bruce D. White.

New York : Pharmaceutical Products Press, [2007], ©2007.

xxiv, 320 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Tobacco and choices: how values and definitions impact decision making -- COX-2 inhibitors and conflict: how balancing beneficence and nonmaleficence influences decision making -- Marijuana, individual liberty, and police power: how autonomy drives decision making -- The "morning-after" pill and systematic ethics and public policy analysis: how justice tempers decision making -- Pain medicines and palliative care drugs -- Drugs used for assisted suicide -- Drug use in "dwindling" patients and in medically futile situations -- Gene therapy and experimentation.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-298) and index.