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When confronted with a moral problem--whether or not a poor man should steal a drug for his dying wife that the druggist would not give him--the boy and girl responded differently in ways that, according to Gilligan, reveal the two distinct moral voices...
Eleven-year-old Amy's reasoning follows a different path. She is reluctant to let the man steal the drug because she thinks he might be able to solve his dilemma by negotiating with the druggist. She has trouble understanding the druggist's refusal to provide the drug free of charge, his lack of care and concern. Gilligan argues that this difference of approach reveals that women tend to focus on care and on the relationships in a particular situation rather than on principles of justice or fairness...
...drug companies encourage skepticism among doctors and pharmacists about the quality of some generic products. Sandoz last year ran an ad in the American Druggist magazine for the tranquilizer Mellaril. It showed an elderly woman with an alarmed look on her face. In her hand was a vial that apparently contained a generic imitation of Mellaril. The text implied that a switch to a generic version of Mellaril could cause increased side effects, including symptoms similar to those of Parkinson's disease. The FDA said that the claims in the ad were false and ordered Sandoz to withdraw...
...pills. Moreover, many drugstore chains are pushing low-priced generics. Walgreens, with 947 outlets in 30 states and Puerto Rico, says that when one of its pharmacists receives a prescription marked "no substitution," he is to call the doctor before filling the order. With the patient standing by, the druggist tells the physician how much more the brand-name drug costs than the generic...
...shortly after Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. became mayor of Minneapolis, he got a call from his father. Hubert Sr. was shocked: his son had been seen dining with bankers. The small-town druggist delivered a warning against the lures of wealth, power and compromise...