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Institutional Integrity in Health Care
Ana Smith . Ed(S): Iltis
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Paperback. Editor(s): Iltis, Ana Smith. Series: Philosophy and Medicine. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJM; MB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 294.
Health care delivery has become institutionalized. As a result, health care organizations now have the power to determine who has access to what kind of health care and under what circumstances. They shape as well the ethics of the various health care professions. These developments have provoked controversies about what kind of obligations such health care organizations have to patients, caregivers, and society at large. In order to respond to these controversies, an account of health care organizational ethics has become necessary.
The essays in this volume:
Health care delivery has become institutionalized. As a result, health care organizations now have the power to determine who has access to what kind of health care and under what circumstances. They shape as well the ethics of the various health care professions. These developments have provoked controversies about what kind of obligations such health care organizations have to patients, caregivers, and society at large. In order to respond to these controversies, an account of health care organizational ethics has become necessary.
The essays in this volume:
-are drawn from an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars in this ... Read more
-address the nature of health care organizational ethics, including such issues as corporate fraud and institutional moral integrity;
-cover the broad range of issues that must be addressed for a coherent discussion of organizational moral responsibility;
-cover the range of theoretical and practical issues like no other volume;
-are of interest to researchers, students and professionals working in the fields of bioethics, health care administration and management, organizational science, and business ethics.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
193
Condition
New
Series
Philosophy and Medicine
Number of Pages
193
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789048165025
SKU
V9789048165025
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Reviews for Institutional Integrity in Health Care
"This is a splendid contribution. There is nothing like it in the literature. It is not just the first substantive exploration of practical issues that fall under the rubric health care organizational ethics, but it also begins the important task of exploring the nature of the field itself." (Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Ph.D., M.D.) "This volume is much needed, given ... Read more