Product Description: Medicine's changing economics have already fundamentally, permanently altered the relationship between physician and patient, E. Haavi Morreim argues. Physicians must weigh a patient's interests against the legitimate, competing claims of other patients, of payers, of society as a whole, and sometimes even of the physician himself...read more

Product Description: This collection provides a philosophical and historical analysis of the development and current situation of managed care. It discusses the relationship between physician professionalism and patient rights to affordable, high quality care...read more

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Product Description: "This is an engaging and important volume. Wong takes seriously medical ethics and business ethics by exploring how organizational norms can be appropriately applied to managed care. The book recognizes the extent to which managed care for better or worse marks a moral watershed in the identity of the health professions: it offers reasons why a reformulated business model may do better than a traditional medical model in candidly indicating the balance between legitimate self-interests and caring for the patient...read more

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Product Description: 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 analysis of how managers can be preoccupied with the goals of management and the values of doctors simultaneously, an outline of potential guidelines towards formulating a cohesion of healthcare management and ethical management and a reassessment of the role of healthcare professionals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The rapid rise of managed care in the United States has introduced new complexities into ethical dilemmas in health care by changing the traditional relationships among health plans, payers, providers, and patients. Through twenty case studies that provide snapshots of a wide range of ethical challenges, this book explores the goals, methods, and practices of managed care...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ethics in the era of managed care This collection of AMA Council Reports from 1990 to 1997 examine a variety of ethical issues concerning managed care. Report topics include financial incentives to limit care, cost containment involving prescription drugs, restrictions on disclosure in managed care contracts, ethical issues in negotiating discounts for specialty care, capitation, and more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In response to the many changes currently going on in health care, this book offers the combined insight and wisdom of a stellar group of scholars and professionals with extensive experience in the health care field. The book opens with a look at people's actual experience of health care today, from four different perspectives...read more

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Product Description: Book by Thurston, Jeffrey, M.D.