1st Edition

Health Professionals and Trust The Cure for Healthcare Law and Policy

By Mark Henaghan Copyright 2012
160 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

160 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

160 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

An ever increasing number of codes of conduct, disciplinary bodies, ethics committees and bureaucratic policies now prescribe how health professionals and health researchers relate to their patients. In this book, Mark Henaghan argues that the result of this trend towards heightened regulation has been to undermine the traditional dynamic of trust in health professionals and to diminish reliance... Read more

1. Healthy Healthcare Law Depends on Trust 2. What is Trust? 3. The Emergency Situation - A Premium on Trust 4. Complaints Processes - A Chance to Build Trust 5. What Happens When Trust Breaks Down? 6. Trust, Emerging Technologies and Indigenous Peoples 7. Building Trust into the Healthcare System

Biography

Mark Henaghan is Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. He specializes in Family Law and is a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.

"If you are going to read one book on health care policy in the next year, this is it."--New York Journal of Books