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- Drugs and drug industry
- truth disclosure
- moral and religious aspects
- philosophy of medicine
- healthcare economics
- animal production
- drugs and drug industry
- moral and religious aspects
- religious ethics
Introduction and objectives
Doctors generally do not discuss the way drugs are manufactured, the source of raw materials and the process of labelling, packing and transport of the drugs for the use of consumers.
A close scrutiny of the process of manufacturing medicinal drugs and chemicals reveals that a significant number of drugs contain animal ingredients (either directly or indirectly).
This research was designed to address the following questions:
Current level of physician knowledge about animal ingredients in medicine and the existing rules and regulations about the same.
The assumptions and attitudes held by physicians about animal ingredients in medicines.
Current practices with respect to the use of medicines containing animal ingredients.
Design
We conducted a cross-sectional survey using self-administered questionnaires distributed to …
Footnotes
These are commissioned only articles offered to authors following submissions where the topic or findings are considered to be of some interest to JME readership but not at the level of a peer-reviewed article. Original papers should not be submitted under this article type. These resubmissions are not externally peer reviewed.
Competing interests None.
Ethics approval Ethics approval was provided by the Institutional Ethics Committee, Grant Medical College, Mumbai.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
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