1st Edition

Ethics and Values in Healthcare Management

Edited By Souzy Dracopolou Copyright 1999
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

Healthcare management is a burning issue at the moment and this timely and topical book explores the ethical issues that arise in the context of healthcare management. Among the topics discussed are healthcare rationing, including an exposition and defence of the Qaly criterion of healthcare rationing and an examination of the contribution that ethical theory can make to the rationing debate, an... Read more
Introduction, Souzy Dracopoulou; Chapter 1 Ethics and Management – Oil and Water?, Andrew Wall; Chapter 2 Economics, Qalys and Medical Ethics, Alan Williams; Chapter 3 Should Managers Adopt the Medical Ethic?, Heather Draper; Chapter 4 Management, Ethics and the Allocation of Resources, Ruth Chadwick; Chapter 5 Impossible Problems?, Michael Loughlin; Chapter 6 Age as a Criterion of Health Care Rationing, Kenneth Boyd; Chapter 7 Health Care in Poland, Jacek Holówka; Chapter 8 Ethics and the Management of Health Care in Greece, Lycurgos Liaropoulos; Chapter 9 Regulation of the French Health Care System, Jean-Claude Sailly, Therèse Lebrune;

Biography

Souzy Dracopoulou is a senior lecturer in Applied Philosophy at Middlesex University, specialising in health care ethics.