VAST 293 - Pharmaceuticals:Scientific Challenges and Ethical Dilemmas

Institution:

Lafayette College

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Description:

Pharmaceuticals provide an interface where science, technology, economics, and ethics interact, affecting our lives intimately. We will analyze complex issued surrounding drug discovery, development, testing, marketing, regulation, access, and distribution. Students will gain comprehensive understanding of guiding principles from initial R&D through to post-market follow-up. We will examine challenges - public skepticism about research, rising budgets, diminishing breakthroughs, escalating side effects, declining affordability and access - by identifying both beneficial and detrimental consequences of pharmaceutical innovation. Waters

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.lafayette.edu/

Phone Number:

(610) 330-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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