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    Etyczne wyzwania w przemyśle farmaceutycznym. Zarys problematyki
    Annales. Ethics in Economic Life 18 (3): 99-108. 2015.
    The goal of the text is to show which actions of the modern pharmaceutical industry are morally controversial. There are several burning issues that we need to face on this field, such as: How to deal with the conflict of interests within the medicine? How to mark the vanishing boundaries between information and advertisement concerning the pharmaceutical education? How does the drug advertisement lead to the pharmaceuticalization of society? In the text all of these problems will be briefly ana…Read more
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    Transparency or restricting gifts? Polish medical students’ opinions about regulating relationships with pharmaceutical sales representatives
    with Marcin Rodzinka and Marta Makowska
    Monash Bioethics Review 40 (Suppl 1): 49-70. 2021.
    Relationships between physicians and pharmaceutical sales representatives (PSRs) often create conflicts of interest, not least because of the various benefits received by physicians. Many countries attempt to control pharmaceutical industry marketing strategies through legal regulation, and this is true in Poland where efforts are underway to eliminate any practices that might be considered corrupt in medicine. The present research considered Polish medical students’ opinions about domestic laws…Read more
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    The pharmaceutical industry and drugs advertisements are sometimes accused of “creating diseases”. This article assesses and describes the role of that industry in fostering medicalization. First, the notions of medicalization and pharmaceuticalization are defined. Then, the problem of distinguishing between harmful overmedicalization and well-founded medicalization is presented. Next, the phenomenon of disease mongering is explained and illustrated by the case analysis of medicalizing pain and …Read more
  •  2
    Nowe wcielenie biopolityki
    Civitas. Studia Z Filozofii Polityki 19 281-293. 2020.
  •  2
    Gorset i skalpel
    Civitas. Studia Z Filozofii Polityki 16 191-198. 2020.
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    What Does Pricelessness Mean?
    Journal of Value Inquiry 56 (3): 469-484. 2022.
    The goal of this text is to elaborate the notion of pricelessness. The issue of pricelessness is distinguished from other important points in the Moral Limits of Markets debate. The proposition of the meaning of pricelessness is presented and discussed. I argue that the notion of pricelessness should not be identified with the notion of dignity or the highest value. The value which is a basis for the pricelessness claim does not have to be a moral value, the notion of pricelessness functions at …Read more
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    Celem artykułu jest podsumowanie filozoficznego sporu na temat autentyczności emocji wywoływanych przez środki psychofarmakologiczne. Praca jest głosem w szerszej bioetycznej dyskusji na temat ulepszania ludzi, a w szczególności ulepszania nastroju. W pierwszej części pracy przedstawiono dwa przeciwstawne bioetyczne stanowiska: wrogich idei ulepszania ludzi biokonserwatystów oraz entuzjastycznych transhumanistów. W drugiej części artykułu wykazano, w jaki sposób nieporozumienie między obydwoma s…Read more
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    How to distinguish medicalization from over-medicalization?
    Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 22 (1): 119-128. 2019.
    Is medicalization always harmful? When does medicine overstep its proper boundaries? The aim of this article is to outline the pragmatic criteria for distinguishing between medicalization and over-medicalization. The consequences of considering a phenomenon to be a medical problem may take radically different forms depending on whether the problem in question is correctly or incorrectly perceived as a medical issue. Neither indiscriminate acceptance of medicalization of subsequent areas of human…Read more
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    Feminizm – czy to słowo jeszcze coś znaczy?
    Przeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 81 (1): 237-258. 2012.
  • Gorset i skalpel
    Civitas 16 191-198. 2014.