A função social da empresa: a indústria farmacêutica, os medicamentos de alto custo e doenças raras

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Nunes, Mérces da Silva
• Orientador(a): Garcia, Maria
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Direito
• Departamento: Faculdade de Direito
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Dignidade da pessoa humana; Medicamentos de alto custo e doenças raras para tratamento de pessoas carentes; Indústria farmacêutica; Função social da propriedade
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Human dignity; Expensive drugs for rare diseases and treatment of needy people; Pharmaceutical industry; Property a social function
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::DIREITO
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/6412

In a Democratic Constitutional State - which elected the human being as the ultimate end of everything and the greatest value of all forms of coexistence, human dignity is the mother principle that inspires, guides and radiates all the legal and social order, is the value that drives and directs the society and its members to commit actions aimed at effecting and promoting the welfare of the human person. Therefore, at the time the Constitution states the dignity of the human being as the founding principle of the Federative Republic of Brazil, it is actually explaining that Brazilian society as a whole has the duty to protect, support and respect the citizen in what the they have as the most sacred and essential to their existence, which is the equality of all human beings in their personal dignity. Recognizing the equality of the human being, in his personal dignity implies that this equality must be respected and observed in all its aspects, especially the political, economic, legal and social conditions regardless of the nature and differences of gender, race, belief, color, language, wealth, birth, national or social origin, as stated in Section II of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from 1948. Due to this, the human being must be protected by society and all its members, not only in the sense that this protection has to be a guarantee for them to remain alive, but mainly not to be attacked in their dignity of human people, because their right to live with dignity and the right to a dignified existence is ensured. Regarding the delimitation and scope of the present study, it is crucial to emphasize that when providing the Unified Health System SUS, free of charge, with expensive drugs for rare diseases and treatment of needy people, the pharmaceutical industry gives to the Property a social function - that in a Democratic Constitutional State goes far beyond the payment of taxes and the availability of vacancies, since the hiring of employees and the payment of taxes are prerequisites to the exercise of the economic activity itself without which even the existence of the company would not be considered. In fact, the business activity directed to the exploration of drugs, as in the pharmaceutical industry, should be developed seeking the social interest, to the recovery and improvement of human health . Thus, for the property to meet its social function, as determined by the article 170, III of the Federal Constitution, the pharmaceutical industry has the duty to participate and engage with the state, sharing the responsibility for ensuring the right to health - fundamental social right, and contributing to the achievement of the basic objectives stated in the article 3 of the Federal Constitution