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Ethics in Health Services Management

ISBN: 9781878812995 | 1878812998
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Health Professions Pr
Pub. Date: 10/1/2004

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Providing a framework for identifying and solving normative and applied ethical dilemmas and the mechanisms to guide ethical decision making in the challenging arena of health services management, the fourth edition of this classic text will fashion more efficacious problem solvers out of its users. The new edition of Ethics in Health Services Management succinctly dissects such critical, contemporary issues as patient autonomy, end-of-life decisions, consent for treatment, appropriate resource allocation, whistleblowing, and confidentiality. Incisive examination and analysis of 80 case studies and vignettes (a dozen more than the third edition) from a full range of care delivery settings will spark lively debate and guide readers to organized, logical solutions. The focus on virtue ethics and values has been much enhanced, and futility treatment and its guidelines are placed under an ethical microscope. Help today's and tomorrow's managers ably and ethically confront
About the Authorvii
Prefaceix
Acknowledgmentsxi
Introduction1(14)
Section I Identifying and Solving Ethical Problems
Cha... MORE
15(20)
Chapter 2 Resolving Ethical Issues
35(18)
Section II Guiding Ethical Decision Making
Chapter 3 Developing Organizational Values, Vision, and Mission
53(22)
Chapter 4 Codes of Ethics in Health Services
75(18)
Chapter 5 Organizational Responses to Ethical Problems
93(30)
Section III Administrative Ethical Issues
Chapter 6 Conflicts of Interest and Fiduciary Duty
123(20)
Chapter 7 Ethical Issues Regarding Organization and Staff
143(32)
Chapter 8 Ethical Issues Regarding Patients and Community
175(36)
Section IV Biomedical Ethical Issues
Chapter 9 Consent
211(18)
Chapter 10 Dying and Death
229(30)
Chapter 11 Patient Autonomy and the Paradigm of Physician-Assisted Suicide
259(24)
Section V Emerging Ethical Issues
Chapter 12 Ethics in Marketing and Managed Care
283(20)
Chapter 13 Ethics in Resource Allocation
303(26)
Chapter 14 Social Responsibility
329(20)
Appendix A Organizational Philosophies and Mission Statements349(10)
Appendix B Ethical Codes359(14)
Select Bibliography373(6)
Index379
Kurt Darr is Professor of Hospital Administration in the Department of Health Services Management and Leadership at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

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