Programska knjižnica 9. Lošinjskih dana bioetike - Hrvatsko ...

nog cilja (općeg dobra), tj. da ostvaruju više moći i novca nego korisnici
njihovih usluga zdravlja.
Držimo, dakle, da današnje društvo dereguliranog kapitalizma, odnosno
njegovi zakoni o liberalizaciji tržišta lijekova, postulira asimetričnu
privilegiju farmaceutske industrije/ljekarnika, usprkos tome što i danas
postoje duboki razlozi zbog kojih grčka riječ pharmakon znači i lijek i
magiju i otrov.
Središnju ulogu koju je ljekarnik imao u kontinuitetu izgradnje »totalnog
učinka« lijeka, tržište čini ništavnom, dok ljekarnikovu humanost čini
slabašnom.
CAN THE PHARMACISTS RECONCILE
THEIR COMMERCIAL INTEREST AND THE PROFESSIO-
NAL ETHICS IN THE DEREGULATED CAPITALISM?
Or: What is the Status of Pharmacists in the Imagery of the
Contemporary Man?
Will the lack of pharmaceutical professional ethics be merely an example
of individual and exceptional, although not at all naive corruption or
will it, in turn, become a state of depravity which is inexorably and capillary
spread in society, in the end depends on whether there is an optimum
of regulation.
The act on deregulation of drugs certainly is not an example; in fact, it
enables the pharmaceutical industry and pharmacists to distant themselves
from their primary goal (the common good), i.e. to generate more power
and profit than the users of their health services.
We hold, therefore, that today’s society of deregulated capitalism, and
its laws passed to liberalize the market of drugs, postulates an asymmetric
privilege to pharmaceutical industries/pharmacists, despite the fact that
even today there are deep reasons why the Greek word pharmakon means
‘medicine’, and ‘magic’, and ‘poison’.
The central role that the pharmacist had in the continuity of building
the “total effect” of a drug, is nullified by the market together with rendering
the pharmacist’s humanity weak.
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