A STUDY CONCERNING THE ATTITUDES OF COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS WORKING WITHIN THE BORDERS OF ANKARA MUNICIPALITY TOWARDS THE ETHICAL PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED

G. Hale ÖZCÖMERT*° , Sevgi SAR*

*Ankara Universty, Faculty of Pharmacy , Department of Pharmacy Management, 06100, Ankara, TURKEY.
°Corresponding Author

Summary:
The word "ethics" has been derived from the Latin root "moralis" through its translation into The Greek term "ethicos" by Cicero.
Ethics is the study of the meanings and analyses of the ethical/moral concepts and principles. It is, in other terms, "the theory of ethics" or "theoretical ethics".
The ethics of pharmacy is an applicational extension of the philosopy of values, and thus of the ethics distinctively valid for the profession of pharmacy. It is also the ethics concerned with the determination of the necessary actions and the attitudes to be developed by pharmacists in certain situations along with the questioning and the identification of actions in terms of their being appropriate or inappropriate.
In this study, an inquiry has been carried out on the pharmacists who work in community pharmacies in various districts of Ankara. The population of the study was formed by 1052 community pharmacists worked in Ankara as the members of Ankara Chamber of Pharmacists. The inquiry has been carried out on 408 pharmacists who were chosen with the ratio-scale sampling method out of the 1052 pharmacists that made up the study population.
In the evaluation of the data of this study, SPSS (ver. 5.0) statistical package programme has been used.

Key words:
Ethics, Pharmacy Ethics, Community Pharmacists.