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Institutional Integrity in Health Care

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Editors:
  1. Ana Smith Iltis

    1. Saint Louis University, St. Louis, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 79)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Institutional Integrity in Health Care: Essential for Organizational Ethics

    • Ana Smith Iltis
    Pages 1-6

  3. Inference Gaps in Moral Assessment and the Moral Agency of Health Care Organizations

    • Peter A. French
    Pages 7-28

  4. Institutional Integrity in Health Care: Tony Soprano and Family Values

    • Kevin Wm. Wildes
    Pages 29-39

  5. Sustaining Institutional Ethos and Integrity: Management in a Postmodern Moment

    • Ronald C. Arnett, Janie M. Harden Fritz
    Pages 41-71

  6. Business Ethics, Organization Ethics and Systems Ethics for Health Care

    • Patricia H. Werhane
    Pages 73-98

  7. The Health Care Institution / Patient Relationship

    • Gerald Logue, Stephen Wear
    Pages 99-110

  8. Creating an Institutional Ethical Identity

    • Stanley Joel Reiser
    Pages 111-119

  9. Institutional Integrity

    • Christopher Tollefsen
    Pages 121-137

  10. Institutional Integrity Through Periods of Significant Change

    • Duane M. Covrig
    Pages 139-174

  11. Organizational Ethics: Moral Obligation and Integrity

    • Ana Smith Iltis
    Pages 175-182

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 183-193
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About this book

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.

Reviews

"This is a splendid contribution. There is nothing like it in the literature. It is not just the first substantive exploration of practical issues that fall under the rubric health care organizational ethics, but it also begins the important task of exploring the nature of the field itself."
(Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Ph.D., M.D.)
"This volume is much needed, given the increasingly-observed shifts in health care, namely that health care is less and less carried out between a doctor and patient, and more and more carried out between a group of individuals and a patient .... This volume reflects on the kinds of standards that should be in place for institutions, from whence these standards come, how they are changed, implemented, and evaluated, who takes responsibility, and untold other avenues."
(Jeffrey Bishop, M.D.)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Saint Louis University, St. Louis, USA

    Ana Smith Iltis

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Institutional Integrity in Health Care

  • Editors: Ana Smith Iltis

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0153-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1782-7Published: 31 December 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6502-5Published: 09 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-0153-2Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 193

  • Topics: Plant Sciences, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Management

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