{"id":3480,"date":"2012-03-26T03:54:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T10:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3480"},"modified":"2018-03-05T21:26:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T05:26:13","slug":"pharmaceutical-hippocratic-oath-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3480","title":{"rendered":"Pharmaceutical Hippocratic Oath"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pharmaceutical Hippocratic Oath <\/a><\/em>has been prepared by Reprieve<\/a>, an organization in the United Kingdom that works to ensure fair judicial processes around the world. The group places special emphasis on cases involving capital punishment.\u00a0 The oath includes the following statement:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe dedicate our work to developing and distributing pharmaceuticals to the service of humanity; we will practice our profession with conscience and dignity; the right to health of the patient will be our first consideration; we condemn the use of any of our pharmaceuticals in the execution of human beings<\/em>.\u201d<\/h5>\n

Some of the issues associated with the campaign it are relevant to freedom of conscience for health care workers, especially pharmacists.\u00a0 They include the problem of complicity, degrees of participation and\u00a0the apparent appeal to\u00a0a de facto<\/em> corporate conscience.<\/p>\n