- ISBN13: 9781878812995
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Product Description
This new edition describes how to approach problems in health services management in an organized, logical way, and where to turn for guidance and guidelines. The author discusses a range of critical, contemporary issues, including patient autonomy, end-of-life decisions, consent for treatment, appropriate resource allocation, reporting problems, and confidentiality. The book examines 80 case studies (12 new to this edition) from a full range of care delivery settings. Readers will learn how to approach ethical paradoxes, formulate personal and professional codes of ethics, resolve conflicts of interest, maximize community benefits with limited resources, and much more!… More >>
May 27th, 2010 at 5:34 am
Written by a Professor of Hospital Administration, the newly updated and expanded fourth edition of Ethics in Health Services Management is an in-depth educational manual for students and professionals alike, drawing upon eighty case studies and vignettes from a full range of care settings to illustrate its precepts for solving a wide variety of ethical dilemmas. Chapters cover organizational responses to ethical problems, conflicts of interest and fiduciary duty, patient autonomy and the paradigm of physician-assisted suicide, and much more. Extensive documentation, an index, and a bibliography round out this superb, textbook-quality resource for confronting moral and ethical medical quandaries.
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