Reprofessionalization in pharmacy

Birenbaum, Arnold

doi:10.1016/0277-9536(82)90203-9

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“…The eclectic nature of pharmacy (as "half business, half profession") has been rejected at least at times by pharmacy academics that have increasingly seen themselves and their graduates as "militant upholders of complete professionalization" [11]. The active lexical transitioning from "retail pharmacy" to "community pharmacy" has been viewed by others as the expression of the profession's own awareness of a strain between the business side and the healthcare side of pharmacy [12].…”

Section: Pharmacy: the Double Face Of Janusmentioning

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“…In the United States, in the past, a prevalence of the business spirit over the professional role of pharmacists has been implied from the lack of involvement in purely professional associations [11]. In the majority, if not all European countries, though, this aspect is irrelevant, because according to law, practicing pharmacists have to belong to a professional organization [20].…”

Section: Is Pharmacy a Quasi-profession?mentioning

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Pharmacy Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism: A Review of the Literature

Ancuceanu¹,

Bogdan²

2016

Bioethics - Medical, Ethical and Legal Perspectives

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This chapter explores the issue of the conflict (real or potential) between the ethical imperatives that should guide the pharmacist in the typical practicing of the profession (i.e. within a pharmacy) and the economic constraints derived from the business dimension of the pharmacy. Marrying service and business in a single profession, pharmacy is supposed to balance harmoniously its two sides, if not to subject business demands to the higher societal, ethical requirements. However, such a balancing exercise is rather like dancing on a rope, and ethics may be trumped by economics, a phenomenon deplored sometimes by pharmacy academics or hospital pharmacists, and by a part of community pharmacists as well. Economics may prevail over ethics in rough forms such as selling health risk products (as it was in the past for tobacco or alcohol) or in more elusive ones, such as longer work hours and shorter counselling times, promoting or dispensing needless or ineffective products (food supplements, cosmetics, etc.), silently refusing to provide or recommend lower cost generics, etc. Ethical research in the field of pharmacy has generally been scarce, and numerous knowledge gaps remain to be filled by future investigations.

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Section: Pharmacy: the Double Face Of Janusmentioning

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Section: Is Pharmacy a Quasi-profession?mentioning

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Pharmacy Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism: A Review of the Literature

Ancuceanu¹,

Bogdan²

2016

Bioethics - Medical, Ethical and Legal Perspectives

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“…It also contributes to the growing, although still comparatively limited, sociology of pharmacy. This literature has historically focused on pharmacists' precarious professional identity and status, with community pharmacists' dual, and possibly conflicting, role as retailers and health 6 care practitioners being a particularly pervasive theme (Birenbaum 1982, Denzin and Mettlin 1968, Edmunds and Calnan 2001, Harding and Taylor 1997). …”

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The pharmacy gaze: bodies in pharmacy practice

Jamie

2014

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…Further, there are changes taking place elsewhere, and among other occupational groups, which reinforce the need for a more flexible perception of role boundary construction. For example, the University of California school of medicine has already experimented with clinical pharmacists' conditional prescribing (see Birenbaum 1982) and a new third class of drugs which pharmacists can prescribe has been established in Florida (Hanna 1985). In addition, the relationships described here are very reminiscent of the doctor-nurse game described by Stein (1967).…”

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Boundary encroachment and task delegation: clinical pharmacists on the medical team

Mesler

1991

Sociology Health & Illness

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The sociological literature on pharmacy is sparse, relative to that on physicians and nurses, especially in light of recent changes in the nature of health care and pharmacy's expanded 'clinical' role. Moreover, some of this literature presents contradictory perceptions of the clinical pharmacy role; some are perceiving it as encroaching on physicians' role boundaries, while others perceive its few new tasks to be delegated. This article is based on extended participant observation of clinical pharmacists in two northeastern teaching hospitals in the U.S. Data are presented on the clinical tasks the pharmacists performed, the potential boundary conflicts they posed for other members of the medical team, the resolutions of these conflicts, and the role boundaries perceived by relevant participants. From this analysis it is argued that the literature on pharmacy's boundary encroachment is not so much contradictory as incomplete. Implications for pharmacy and the analysis of role boundaries is discussed in conclusion.

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Reprofessionalization in pharmacy

Cited by 66 publications

References 12 publications

Pharmacy Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism: A Review of the Literature

Pharmacy Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism: A Review of the Literature

The pharmacy gaze: bodies in pharmacy practice

Boundary encroachment and task delegation: clinical pharmacists on the medical team

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