1st Edition

Managing Complexity in Healthcare

By Lesley Kuhn, Kieran Le Plastrier Copyright 2022
134 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

134 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

134 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Managing Complexity in Healthcare introduces the ComEntEth (Complex Entropic Ethical) model as an integrated bio-medical and philosophical approach to understanding how people get things done in healthcare. Drawing on the complexity sciences, studies of entropy in living organisms and the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, healthcare is theorised as energetic relational exchanges between people as... Read more
CHAPTER ONE: HEALTHCARE AS COMPLEX, ENTROPIC AND ETHICAL
CHAPTER TWO: REDUCING ENTROPY IN PATIENTS AS THE ESSENCE OF HEALTHCARE
CHAPTER THREE: IMPROVING ENTROPIC FLOW IN HEALTHCARE ORGANISATIONS
CHAPTER FOUR: ENTROPY AND HEALTHCARE IN A PANDEMIC
CHAPTER FIVE: AFTERWORD: COMPLEXITY, ENTROPY AND ETHICS IN HEALTHCARE

Biography

Dr. Lesley Kuhn is a retired academic, Western Sydney University, Australia.

Dr. Kieran Le Plastrier is a family physician and Director of Medical Services at Blackall Hospital, Australia.