Ethics and values in health care management /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 200 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Professional ethics Professional ethics.
Subject:	Managed care plans (Medical care) -- Moral and ethical aspects. Ethics, Medical. Delivery of Health Care -- economics. Delivery of Health Care -- organization & administration. Managed Care Programs -- organization & administration. Managed care plans (Medical care) -- Moral and ethical aspects. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11145011

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Other authors / contributors:	Dracopoulou, Souzy, 1951-
ISBN:	020301037X 9780203010372 9780415146449 0415146445 9780415146456 0415146453 0415146445 0415146453
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Ethics and values in health care management. London ; New York : Routledge, 1998

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Place of Ethics in Health Care Management / Souzy Dracopoulou
1. Ethics and Management
Oil and Water? / Andrew Wall
2. Economics, Qalys and Medical Ethics: A Health Economist's Perspective / Alan Williams
3. Should Managers Adopt the Medical Ethic? Reflections on Health Care Management / Heather Draper
4. Management, Ethics and the Allocation of Resources / Ruth Chadwick
5. Impossible Problems? The Limits to the very Idea of Reasoning about the Management of Health Services / Michael Loughlin
6. Age as a Criterion of Health Care Rationing / Kenneth Boyd
7. Health Care in Poland: Dilemmas of Transformation / Jacek Holowka
8. Ethics and the Management of Health Care in Greece: A Health Economist's Perspective / Lycurgos Liaropoulos
9. Regulation of the French Health Care System: Economic and Ethical Aspects / Jean-Claude Sailly and Therese Lebrune.

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