Pharmaceutical Ethics is an important text, which aims to provide ethical guidelines much needed by the pharmaceutical industry. The book covers ethical issues involved in the testing and use of pharmaceuticals on humans, focusing extensively on the issues surrounding the pharmaceutical industry and not medicine in general.

Topics covered include:
* Ethics of the drug discovery and development process

* Informed consent

* Ethical promotion and advertising of medicines

* Ethical aspects of clinical trials
This text responds to an important need in the pharmaceutical industry and should be read by all within that industry as well as by health care ethicists and pharmacy and medical practitioners and students.