The film simply analyzed the ethical dilemma between the life of people in the developing countries and the maximum revenue needed to be made by the pharmaceutical companies.
The ethical dilemma is when we need to choose between what is right and wrong to save humanity. It is any situation where there are ethical reasons pointing towards two different courses of action. In this film, the pharmaceutical companies have two different moral obligations which are to make profits and supplied drugs but the reverse is the case in the developing countries where most of the people were poor that they couldn’t afford the price of the drugs. The companies had to decide whether to maximize revenue and allow millions of people to continue to die or reduced …show more content…
ethnocentrism arguments in this module is the cultural attitude or viewpoint that takes an ethnic group or culture as the standard or center of reference for evaluating other ethnic groups or culture. Some of the ethnocentrism arguments used in this film by the authority to support their claims include:
• Most of the Americans ADS opposed the lower price of the drugs in Africa because if they did, they thought it will discourage R&D for them
• Giving drugs to people in Africa will make them misused it, they will not be compliant in terms of treatment, they will develop resistance and the resistance will come back to kill
Americans or kill the Europeans
• The drug companies feared that relaxing its patent monopolies in poorest countries could set a bad precedent, one which might threaten the future profits margins in major engineering market like China and India
• If they let the patent pattern comes down, if intellectual property is get rid of, drugs from
India will start coming in and the implication will be the occurrence of counterfeit drugs, there
is going to be pirated drugs, the drugs are going to be dirty and the will be substandard. if the drugs were allowed to pass, there will be counterfeit and it will kill their
The ethical dilemma is when we need to choose between what is right and wrong to save humanity. It is any situation where there are ethical reasons pointing towards two different courses of action. In this film, the pharmaceutical companies have two different moral obligations which are to make profits and supplied drugs but the reverse is the case in the developing countries where most of the people were poor that they couldn’t afford the price of the drugs. The companies had to decide whether to maximize revenue and allow millions of people to continue to die or reduced …show more content…
ethnocentrism arguments in this module is the cultural attitude or viewpoint that takes an ethnic group or culture as the standard or center of reference for evaluating other ethnic groups or culture. Some of the ethnocentrism arguments used in this film by the authority to support their claims include:
• Most of the Americans ADS opposed the lower price of the drugs in Africa because if they did, they thought it will discourage R&D for them
• Giving drugs to people in Africa will make them misused it, they will not be compliant in terms of treatment, they will develop resistance and the resistance will come back to kill
Americans or kill the Europeans
• The drug companies feared that relaxing its patent monopolies in poorest countries could set a bad precedent, one which might threaten the future profits margins in major engineering market like China and India
• If they let the patent pattern comes down, if intellectual property is get rid of, drugs from
India will start coming in and the implication will be the occurrence of counterfeit drugs, there
is going to be pirated drugs, the drugs are going to be dirty and the will be substandard. if the drugs were allowed to pass, there will be counterfeit and it will kill their