Pharmaceutical Packaging According to the “Packaging Ethics Charter”

The chapter analyses the role that packaging plays in pharmacological products, starting with the communicative and instrumental aspects. Like and arguably more than other products, the medicine needs the prosthetic, synthetic and directing mediation aspect of packaging; the medicine is one of those types of things which, through packaging, take on a form, become products and usable content. The observations developed in the chapter take their cue from those in the Ethical Packaging Charter, a document for the study and analysis of packaging concerning the needs of the consumer, the user, the environment, and society.