Ethics in Health Services Management

by Darr, Kurt

• ISBN13: 9781878812995
• ISBN10: 1878812998
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Health Professions Pr

Summary

Providing a framework for identifying and solving normative and applied ethical dilemmas and the mechanisms to guide ethical decision making in the challenging arena of health services management, the fourth edition of this classic text will fashion more efficacious problem solvers out of its users. The new edition of Ethics in Health Services Management succinctly dissects such critical, contemporary issues as patient autonomy, end-of-life decisions, consent for treatment, appropriate resource allocation, whistleblowing, and confidentiality. Incisive examination and analysis of 80 case studies and vignettes (a dozen more than the third edition) from a full range of care delivery settings will spark lively debate and guide readers to organized, logical solutions. The focus on virtue ethics and values has been much enhanced, and futility treatment and its guidelines are placed under an ethical microscope. Help today's and tomorrow's managers ably and ethically confront

Author Biography

Kurt Darr is Professor of Hospital Administration in the Department of Health Services Management and Leadership at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

About the Author	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(14)
Section I Identifying and Solving Ethical Problems
Chapter 1 Considering Moral Philosophies and Principles	15	(20)
Chapter 2 Resolving Ethical Issues	35	(18)
Section II Guiding Ethical Decision Making
Chapter 3 Developing Organizational Values, Vision, and Mission	53	(22)
Chapter 4 Codes of Ethics in Health Services	75	(18)
Chapter 5 Organizational Responses to Ethical Problems	93	(30)
Section III Administrative Ethical Issues
Chapter 6 Conflicts of Interest and Fiduciary Duty	123	(20)
Chapter 7 Ethical Issues Regarding Organization and Staff	143	(32)
Chapter 8 Ethical Issues Regarding Patients and Community	175	(36)
Section IV Biomedical Ethical Issues
Chapter 9 Consent	211	(18)
Chapter 10 Dying and Death	229	(30)
Chapter 11 Patient Autonomy and the Paradigm of Physician-Assisted Suicide	259	(24)
Section V Emerging Ethical Issues
Chapter 12 Ethics in Marketing and Managed Care	283	(20)
Chapter 13 Ethics in Resource Allocation	303	(26)
Chapter 14 Social Responsibility	329	(20)
Appendix A Organizational Philosophies and Mission Statements	349	(10)
Appendix B Ethical Codes	359	(14)
Select Bibliography	373	(6)
Index	379