The Druggists' Dilemma: Problems of a Marginal Occupation

McCormack, Thelma

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“…The occupation of pharmacy presents an opportunity to examine this model in an empirical setting. Previous studies of pharmacy show the roles of business and professional service to be enmeshed in this occupation (Thorner, 1942;McCormack, 1956;Harvey, 1966;Quinney, 1964;Denzin, 1968). Thorner, (1942:321) portrayed pharmacy as ".…”

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Occupational Values, Role Orientations, and Work Settings: the Case of Pharmacy

Kronus

1975

The Sociological Quarterly

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The theoretical model positing that the occupational institution of business is based on pecuniary and extrinsic values while professions are predicated on altruistic service values is tested using the case of pharmacy. Pharmacists with business‐role orientations are compared with those favoring a professional‐role stance in terms of their occupational values. Results contrary to the model were found. Pharmacists, regardless of role orientation, were similarly motivated by service and income values. When the work setting was taken into account, it was found that altruism predominated in the business settings, and prestige and income values were deemed less important as compared to the hospital/clinic setting. Revisions of the theoretical model are suggested.

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Occupational Values, Role Orientations, and Work Settings: the Case of Pharmacy

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1975

The Sociological Quarterly

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“…Older studies claimed that pharmacy students entered the profession mainly because pharmacy offered the prospects of economic security or matched certain aptitudes of the candidates, whereas only a small proportion were motivated by altruistic reasons [15,45]. More specifically, a number of first-year pharmacy students were asked about the motivations for which they selected pharmacy school and found half of them choose pharmacy because of a certain aptitude, 40% for financial security reasons and only 14% mentioned a desire to contribute the good of others [45]. This would indicate that pharmacists adopted this profession not because of altruistic reasons but for more prosaic motivations and purposes.…”

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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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“…Such strains do not exist as yet, with the rehabilitation counselor group.29 With the pharmacist group, studied by McCormack and Sonnedecker, and the optometrist group, as inspected by Orzack and Uglum, we have still another type of strain -the role as marginal to both the health field and business. 30 Here a major conflict becomes that of ethical conduct-professional vs. business orientation. This is a role strain of a type different from the rehabilitation counselor working within the health field without the "profit motive.…”

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Structured Strain in a Marginal Profession: Rehabilitation Counseling

Ea¹

1965

Journal of Health and Human Behavior

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The Druggists' Dilemma: Problems of a Marginal Occupation

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Occupational Values, Role Orientations, and Work Settings: the Case of Pharmacy

Occupational Values, Role Orientations, and Work Settings: the Case of Pharmacy

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

Structured Strain in a Marginal Profession: Rehabilitation Counseling

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