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Ethics and values in health care management / edited by Souzy Dracopoulou.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Professional ethics.
- Professional ethics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Managed care plans (Medical care)--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Managed care plans (Medical care).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Healthcare management is a burning issue at the moment and this timely and topical book explores the ethical issues that arise in the context of healthcare management. Among the topics discussed are healthcare rationing, including an exposition and defence of the Qaly criterion of healthcare rationing and an examination of the contribution that ethical theory can make to the rationing debate, an analysis of how managers can be preoccupied with the goals of management and the values of doctors simultaneously, an outline of potential guidelines towards formulating a cohesion of healthcare manage
- Contents:
- Cover; Ethics And values In health Care management; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Series Editor'spreface; Introduction: The Place of Ethics in Health Care Management; 1. Ethics and Management - Oil and Water?; 2. Economics, Qalys and Medical Ethics: a Health Economist's Perspective; 3. Should Managers Adopt the Medical Ethic? Reflections on Health Care Management; 4. Management, Ethics and the Allocation of Resources; 5. Impossible Problems? the Limits to the Very Idea of Reasoning About the Management of Health Services; 6. Age as a Criterion of Health Care Rationing
- 7. Health Care in Poland: Dilemmas of Transformation8. Ethics and the Management of Health Care in Greece: a Health Economist's Perspective; 9. Regulation of the French Health Care System: Economic and Ethical Aspects; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-75723-9
- 1-280-46375-9
- 0-203-01037-X
- 9780203010372
- OCLC:
- 70764213
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