期刊全称 | A Sociotheological Approach to Catholic Social Teaching | 期刊简称 | The Role of Religion | 影响因子2023 | Vivencio O. Ballano | 视频video | | 发行地址 | Applies Catholic social teaching and sociology to understand major COVID-19 issues that affect the common good.Adopts a sociotheological approach in analyzing unethical business practices of Big Pharm | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | This book introduces Catholic social teaching (CST) and its teaching on the common good to the reader and applies them in the realm of public health to critically analyze the major global issues of COVID-19 that undermine public interest. It uses the sociotheological approach that combines the moral principles of CST and the holistic analysis of modern sociology and also utilizes the secondary literature as the main source of textual data. Specifically, it investigates the corporate moral irresponsibility and some unethical business practices of Big Pharma in the sale and distribution of its anti-COVID vaccines and medicines, the injustice in the inequitable global vaccine distribution, the weakening of the United States Congress’s legislative regulation against the pharmaceutical industry’s overpricing and profiteering, the inadequacy of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) law enforcement system against corruption, and the lack of social monitoring in the current public health surveillance system to safeguard the public good from corporate fraud and white-collar crime. This book highlights the contribution of sociology in providing the empirical foundation of CST’s moral analys | Pindex | Book 2022 |
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