Health Professions Press
Ethics in health services management, 5th ed.
This is the fifth edition of a text intended to improve the applied managerial and biomedical ethical skills of students and nascent practitioners of health service management. Darr (hospital administration, George Washington U.) has reorganized and updated the material, which is organized into five sections that describe a general framework for identifying and solving ethical problems; explore the key role of organizational philosophy; address administrative ethical issues such as conflicts of interest and the organizations' ethical obligations to stakeholders; examine biomedical ethical issues such as consent, dying and death, and patient autonomy; and discuss ethical issues relating to marketing and managed care, resource allocation, and the social responsibility of health services organizations. The new edition includes new case materials and a greater emphasis on virtues ethics. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
