The Ethics of Managed Care
Subtitle: A Pragmatic Approach
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: August 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780253338488
Subjects: Medical Ethics; Health Care Administration; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Ethics; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Issues; Managed care plans (Medical ca; Managed care plans (Medical care); Moral and ethical aspects
First sentence: We tend to think of organizations and the problems they raise as newly arrived to health care.
Description: "Discussions of managed care frequently begin and end with an opposition between the Hippocratic ethic of dedication to patient welfare and a business ethic of self-interest in the service of efficiency. In The Ethics of Managed Care, Mary R. Anderlik approaches managed care as a problem of organizations. Rejecting analysis in terms of a simple dichotomy of "medicine vs. business," she argues that attention should be directed to management as manipulation, the neglect of internal goods such as satisfaction in professional accomplishment, and three kinds of moral myopia associated with organizations."--Jacket.