Etyczne wyzwania rynku farmaceutycznego

Abstract

Because of its enormous impact on the lives and health of people and the involvement of the huge financial resources and the expectation of even greater profits, drug market is the area of the occurrence of numerous ethical challenges. The purpose of this article is to attempt to identify these risks and offer solutions of the problematic situations in the light of the personalistic ethics and the teaching of the Catolic Church. Therefore, the fundamental two questions, to which answers should be sought can be formulated as follows: what are the ethical challenges which are being faced by the participants of the pharmaceutical market? and what solutions to these situations should personalistic ethics and the teaching of the Catholic Church propose? It also seems necessary to indicate the legal system and market rules as insufficient controls the drug market.