Do firms with unique competencies for rescuing victims of human catastrophes have special obligations? Corporate responsibility and the AIDS catastrophe in sub-Saharan Africa [0.03%]
拥有独特能力援救人力灾难受害者的公司是否负有特殊的义务?艾滋病灾难下的企业责任与非洲撒哈南地区案例
Thomas W Dunfee
Thomas W Dunfee
Firms possessing a unique competency to rescue the victims of a human catastrophe have a minimum moral obligation to devote substantial resources toward best efforts to aid victims. The minimum amount that firms should devote to rescue is t...
Intellectual property rights, moral imagination, and access to life-enhancing drugs [0.03%]
知识产权、道德想象力与获取改善生活的药物之间的关系
Patricia H Werhane,Michael Gorman
Patricia H Werhane
Although the idea of intellectual property (IP) rights--proprietary rights to what one invents, writes, paints, composes or creates--is firmly embedded in Western thinking, these rights are now being challenged across the globe in a number ...
The corporate social responsibility of the pharmaceutical industry: idealism without illusion and realism without resignation [0.03%]
制药行业的企业社会责任:理想而不盲目乐观,现实而不无所作为
Klaus M Leisinger
Klaus M Leisinger
In recent years society has come to expect more from the "socially-responsible" company and the global HIV/AIDS pandemic in particular has resulted in some critics saying that the "Big Pharma" companies have not been living up to their soci...
Richard T De George
Richard T De George
The pharmaceutical industry has in recent years come under attack from an ethical point of view concerning its patents and the non-accessibility of life-saving drugs for many of the poor in both less developed countries and in the United St...
The turn to the local: the possibility of returning health care to the community [0.03%]
回归本土:将医疗保健归还社区的可能性
Lisa H Newton
Lisa H Newton
It is not too early to suggest that the attempts to place medical cae in private hands (through group insurance arrangements) has not fulfilled its promise--or better, the promises that were made for it. Yet history has not been kind to pla...
Ann E Mills,Mary V Rorty
Ann E Mills
This essay examines the impact of the imposition of businesses techniques, in particular, those associated with Total Quality Management, on the relationships of important components of the health care delivery system, including payers, man...
Ian Maitland
Ian Maitland
This article examines the ethical issues raised by the pricing of priceless goods. Priceless goods are defined as ones that are widely held to have some special non-market value that makes them unsuited for buying and selling. One subset of...
Fulfilling institutional responsibilities in health care: organizational ethics and the role of mission discernment [0.03%]
医疗卫生中的机构责任:组织伦理及使命鉴别作用
John A Gallagher,Jerry Goodstein
John A Gallagher
In this paper we highlight the emergence of organizational ethics issues in health care as an important outcome of the changing structure of health care delivery. We emphasize three core themes related to business ethics and health care eth...
Ethics and incentives: an evaluation and development of stakeholder theory in the health care industry [0.03%]
伦理与激励:卫生保健行业的利益相关者理论评估与发展
Heather Elms,Shawn Berman,Andrew C Wicks
Heather Elms
This paper utilizes a qualitative case study of the health care industry and a recent legal case to demonstrate that stakeholder theory's focus on ethics, without recognition of the effects of incentives, severely limits the theory's abilit...