Managed care as social experiment and social problem -- Managed care and the medicine-business polemic -- An ethic for an age of organizations -- Kaiser permanente: an organizational character study -- The market, professionalism, and cooperative egalitarianism in health care -- Making sense of managed care -- The future of managed care
Summary
The Ethics of Managed CareA Pragmatic ApproachMary R. AnderlikA breakthrough reappraisal of the managed healthcare debate. Discussions of managed care frequently begin and end with an opposition between the Hippocratic ethic of dedication to patient welfare and a business ethic of self-interest in the service of efficiency. Mary R. Anderlik approaches managed care as a problem of organizations. Rejecting a simple "medicine vs. business" analysis, she directs attention to management as manipu
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-285) and index
