Ethics and Values in Healthcare Management

ISBN-13: 9780415146456 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 224 str.

Souzy Dracopolou

Opis

Explores the ethical issues that arise in the context of health care management. Among the topics discussed are: health care rationing, including an exposition and defence of the Qaly criterion of health care 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 health care management; and ethical management and a reassessment of the role of health care professionals.

Spis treści

Introduction, Souzy Dracopoulou; Chapter 1 Ethics and Management – Oil and Water?, Andrew Wall; Chapter 2 Economics, Qalys and Medical Ethics, Alan Williams; Chapter 3 Should Managers Adopt the Medical Ethic?, Heather Draper; Chapter 4 Management, Ethics and the Allocation of Resources, Ruth Chadwick; Chapter 5 Impossible Problems?, Michael Loughlin; Chapter 6 Age as a Criterion of Health Care Rationing, Kenneth Boyd; Chapter 7 Health Care in Poland, Jacek Holówka; Chapter 8 Ethics and the Management of Health Care in Greece, Lycurgos Liaropoulos; Chapter 9 Regulation of the French Health Care System, Jean-Claude Sailly, Therèse Lebrune;

O autorze

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