Medicine and the Marketplace
Subtitle: The Moral Dimensions of Managed Care
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: February 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780268014407
Subjects: Emergency services; General practice; Ethics; Health Risk Assessment; Public Health; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Health care rationing; Managed care plans (Medical ca; Managed care plans (Medical care); Medical ethics; Moral and ethical aspects; Standards
Description: "'Medicine and the Marketplace' is a comprehensive analysis of the ethical dilemmas raised by managed health care. The emerging dominance of managed care provided by profit-seeking corporations has intensified the public's concern that business goals of maximizing profits will destroy medicine's traditional commitment to patient well-being. Society is left to wonder how physicians can properly honor their duties to patients when the managed care organizations that employ them have financial obligations to shareholders. [This] timely book addresses issues raised by the new intersections of business and medicine with an ethical assessment of emerging health care arrangements. By focusing on organizational ethics, he offers an integrative framework that seeks to balance patient, societal, and corporate interests."--Jacket.