Institutional Integrity in Health Care

✍ Scribed by Ana Smith Iltis (auth.), Ana Smith Iltis (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 194
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine 79
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Health care delivery has become institutionalized. As a result, health care organizations now have the power to determine who has access to what kind of health care and under what circumstances. They shape as well the ethics of the various health care professions. These developments have provoked controversies about what kind of obligations such health care organizations have to patients, caregivers, and society at large. In order to respond to these controversies, an account of health care organizational ethics has become necessary.
The essays in this volume:

-are drawn from an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars in this growing field;

-address the nature of health care organizational ethics, including such issues as corporate fraud and institutional moral integrity;

-cover the broad range of issues that must be addressed for a coherent discussion of organizational moral responsibility;

-cover the range of theoretical and practical issues like no other volume;

-are of interest to researchers, students and professionals working in the fields of bioethics, health care administration and management, organizational science, and business ethics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Institutional Integrity in Health Care: Essential for Organizational Ethics....Pages 1-6
Inference Gaps in Moral Assessment and the Moral Agency of Health Care Organizations....Pages 7-28
Institutional Integrity in Health Care: Tony Soprano and Family Values....Pages 29-39
Sustaining Institutional Ethos and Integrity: Management in a Postmodern Moment....Pages 41-71
Business Ethics, Organization Ethics and Systems Ethics for Health Care....Pages 73-98
The Health Care Institution / Patient Relationship....Pages 99-110
Creating an Institutional Ethical Identity....Pages 111-119
Institutional Integrity....Pages 121-137
Institutional Integrity Through Periods of Significant Change....Pages 139-174
Organizational Ethics: Moral Obligation and Integrity....Pages 175-182
Back Matter....Pages 183-193

✦ Subjects

Theory of Medicine/Bioethics; Management/Business for Professionals