Moral Psychology and the Intuition that Pharmaceutical Companies Have a ‘Special’ Obligation to Society

Many people believe that the research-based pharmaceutical industry has a ‘special’ moral obligation to provide lifesaving medications to the needy, either free-of-charge or at a reduced rate relative to the cost of manufacture. In this essay, I argue that we can explain the ubiquitous notion of a s...

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Main Author: Huebner, James M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer 2014
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2014, Volume: 122, Issue: 3, Pages: 501-510
Further subjects:B Access to lifesaving medicines
B Taboo trade-off theory
B Special moral obligation
B Pharmaceutical Industry
B Moral Intuition
B Moral Psychology
B Betrayal aversion
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