Cover -- Ethics And values In health Care management -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Series Editor'spreface -- Introduction: The Place of Ethics in Health Care Management -- 1. Ethics and Management - Oil and Water? -- 2. Economics, Qalys and Medical Ethics: a Health Economist's Perspective -- 3. Should Managers Adopt the Medical Ethic? Reflections on Health Care Management -- 4. Management, Ethics and the Allocation of Resources -- 5. Impossible Problems? the Limits to the Very Idea of Reasoning About the Management of Health Services -- 6. Age as a Criterion of Health Care Rationing -- 7. Health Care in Poland: Dilemmas of Transformation -- 8. Ethics and the Management of Health Care in Greece: a Health Economist's Perspective -- 9. Regulation of the French Health Care System: Economic and Ethical Aspects -- Index.

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.

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