Pharmaceutical Freedom: Why Patients Have a Right to Self Medicate

by Jessica Flanigan

If a competent adult refuses medical treatment, physicians and public officials must respect her decision. Coercive medical paternalism is a clear violation of the doctrine of informed consent, which protects patients' rights to make medical decisions even if a patient's choice endangers her health. The same reasons for rejecting medical paternalism in the doctor's office are also reasons to reject medical paternalism at the pharmacy, yet coercive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190684542
• ISBN13: 9780190684549
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"