Ethics and Values in Healthcare Management (Professional Ethics) - Hardcover

 
9780415146449: Ethics and Values in Healthcare Management (Professional Ethics)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415146445 ISBN 13: 9780415146449
Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

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 management and ethical management and a reassessment of the role of healthcare professionals. Ethics and Values in Healthcare Management provides a valuable and much needed analysis of the ethical problems associated with healthcare management and offers some solutions towards ameliorationg healthcare organisations.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Souzy Dracopoulou is a senior lecturer in Applied Philosophy at Middlesex University, specialising in health care ethics.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415146445
ISBN 13 
9780415146449
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
212
Editor
Dracopolou Souzy

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780415146456: Ethics and Values in Healthcare Management (Professional Ethics)

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  0415146453 ISBN 13:  9780415146456
Publisher: Routledge, 1998
Softcover