| Description |
1 online resource (x, 293 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Medical ethics series
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Medical ethics series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-285) and index. |
| Contents |
Managed care as social experiment and social problem -- Managed care and the medicine-business polemic -- An ethic for an age of organizations -- Kaiser permanente: an organizational character study -- The market, professionalism, and cooperative egalitarianism in health care -- Making sense of managed care -- The future of managed care. |
| Summary |
The Ethics of Managed CareA Pragmatic ApproachMary R. AnderlikA breakthrough reappraisal of the managed healthcare debate. 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. Mary R. Anderlik approaches managed care as a problem of organizations. Rejecting a simple "medicine vs. business" analysis, she directs attention to management as manipu. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Managed care plans (Medical care) -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Managed care plans (Medical care) -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Managed care plans (Medical care) |
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Ethics. |
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Managed Care Programs. |
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Decision Making, Organizational. |
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Delivery of Health Care -- trends. |
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Economics, Medical. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Anderlik, Mary R. Ethics of managed care. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2001 0253338484 (DLC) 00054015 |
| ISBN |
0253108438 (electronic book) |
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9780253108432 (electronic book) |
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