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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777070303321

Autore

Weber Leonard J. <1942->

Titolo

Business ethics in healthcare [[electronic resource] ] : beyond compliance / / Leonard J. Weber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2001

ISBN

1-282-06301-4

9786612063015

0-253-10920-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Collana

Medical ethics series

Disciplina

174/.26

Soggetti

Business ethics

Medical ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-188) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Beyond Compliance, Beyond Integrity, Beyond Clinical Ethics; One: Healthcare Business Ethics; Two: Ethics Is Not Neutral: A Framework for Making Decisions; Three: Ethics, Cost, and the Quality of Care; Four: Patient Rights in a Just Organization; Five: Clininians and Conflicts of Interest, A Focus on Management; Six: A Fair Hearing of Appeals of Denied Coverage in Managed Care Plans; Seven: Organizational Ethics, A Code Is Only the Beginning; Eight: Just Wages and Salaries; Nine: Ethics and Downsizing

Ten: Patient Requests for Healthcare Provider of a Specific Race or SexEleven: Conscientious Objection to Participation in Certain Treatment Options; Twelve: Union Organizing and Employee Strikes; Thirteen: Responsible Advertising; Fourteen: Environmental Responsibility and the Precautionary Principle; Fifteen: Community Serving Mergers and Acquisitions; Sixteen: Socially Responsible Investing; Seventeen: Components of a Business Ethics Program; Eighteen: The Organizational Ethics Committee; Notes; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Healthcare ethics is not just about decisions made at the bedside. It is                also about decisions made in executive offices and in boardrooms. Business Ethics in                Healthcare offers perspectives that can



assist healthcare managers achieve the                highest ethical standards as they face their roles as healthcare providers,                employers, and community service organizations. Weber suggests guidelines and                criteria based on the understanding that the healthcare organization is committed to                patients' rights, to careful st