Deontological Ethical Analysis of Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Marketing In Deontological ethics‚ morality of an action is based upon the particular action’s adherence to moral laws independent of their consequences (DeGeorge 62). Direct-to-consumer marketing of pharmaceuticals has had heated debate with logical arguments from those for‚ and for those against allowing such practices to exist. I do not believe the marketing of the prescription medication to be solely unethical but more
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“Your accomplishing day and weeks what it takes normal people to do in a lifetime” said Miss Kinnian (Keyes). During Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes‚ Charlie Gordon is the main character he is a thirty year old man trying to learn how to read and write again‚ as is his buddy Algernon the mouse. Charlie is doing the experiment with him to see how it will go at to get his test score up. He is also trying to accomplish so much even though his brain will not mentally let him‚ this is because he
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took an English class called the Human Condition‚ in this class we read a variety of short stories and had many class discussions about them. Out of all the stories we read one particularly stood out to me and that was an excerpt from a book called Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. The story was about the main character Charlie Gordon who only had an IQ of 68 that is until Charlie agrees to become part of a medical study and to have surgery to increase his IQ. After the surgery is successful Charlie
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Charlie Gordon showed us that surgerys are very risky and we should really think before we do risky things. In the science fiction story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keys‚ Charlie has a passion to get intelligent but in my perspective the surgery was useless and risky. Charlie Gordon should not have had the Artificial Intelligence surgery because i was risky and it wasn’t permanent. Charlie Gordon lost his friends because of the AL surgery. His “friends” didn’t like how smart he get and I
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“Flowers of Algernon” was made by Daniel Keyes. This story revolves around Charlie Gordon. He is a thirty-two year old man with a very low IQ level. Charlie has trouble reading‚ writing‚ and speaking. Charlie is asked to be operated on him to make him smarter. Once they get permission required to do it‚ they operated on him and it because a success for a short period of time. He starts to learn‚ remember‚ and do things he was not able to do before. Later‚ Charlie starts to realize some things and
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Have you ever thought of what it would be like to be the smartest person in the world or to just simply be smarter than you already are. This is what the mentally challenged man Charlie Gordon from the science fiction book “Flowers for Algernon” written by Daniel Keyes had always wanted. So one day Charlie had decided to volunteer have an experimental A.I. Surgery to increase his Intelligence and to allow him to be like everyone else. Charlie Gordon’s life was increased by a substantial amount for
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patients” (Abraham 2010:604). According to Abraham (2010)‚ pharmaceuticalization is currently on an upward spiral and this dramatic increase can be attributed to five different factors. These five explanations are biomedicalism‚ medicalization‚ pharmaceutical industry promotion and marketing‚ consumerism‚ and regulatory-state ideology or policy. Each of these explanatory factors are mutually interactive but competing and it will be explained how this is in the following paragraphs. The biomedicalization
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Counterfeit Drugs Problems and Solutions for the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry Introduction Counterfeit drugs have been around for much of the recent history of industrial-scale drug production in India and abroad. Although detailed data on counterfeit medicines are difficult to obtain by virtue of its very nature‚ a recent WHO report estimates the prevalence to be around 1% of sales in developed countries to over 10% in some developing countries1. The more important aspect of this global
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The "Pharmaceutical Excipients Market [By Products (Carbohydrates‚ Oleochemicals‚ Petrochemicals‚ Polymers‚ Microcrystalline Cellulose‚ Sugar‚ Calcium carbonate)‚ By Functionality (Fillers‚ Binders‚ Lubricants‚ Preservatives)] – Global Forecast to 2018 " analyzes and studies the major market drivers‚ restraints‚ and opportunities in North America‚ Europe‚ Asia-Pacific‚ and the Rest of the World. Browse 112 market data tables with 48 figures spread through 315 pages and in-depth TOC on "Pharmaceutical
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Have you ever heard of artificial intelligence? Well “Flowers for Algernon” written by Daniel Keyes is about just that. When Charlie Gordon is chosen for an operation to triple his IQ he is ecstatic. But he knows it may not last forever and he is prepared for that. He ends up getting the operation and it worked! But not for long. After a few weeks he sees signs of loss of intelligence just like a mouse named Algernon with the same operation. After the mouse dies Charlie loses all hope and he knows
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