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Mary R. Anderlik, Research Professor, Health Law and Policy Institute, University of Houston Law Center, has an A.B from Bryn Mawr College, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. from Rice University. She spent a number of years as an associate in the Banking and Commercial Transactions group at Sidley & Austin. Immediately prior to joining the Institute, she held a postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical Ethics at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. At the Institute, Dr. Anderlik works on projects in the areas of managed care, disability, genetics, and privacy.
List of contents
Preliminary Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Managed Care as Social Experiment and Social Problem
2. Managed Care and the Medicine-Business Polemic
3. An Ethic for an Age of Organizations
4. Kaiser Permanente: An Organizational Character Study
5. The Market, Professionalism, and Cooperative Egalitarianism in Health Care
6. Making Sense of Managed Care
Conclusion: The Future of Managed Care
About the author
Mary R. Anderlik, Research Professor, Health Law and Policy Institute, University of Houston Law Center, has an A.B from Bryn Mawr College, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. from Rice University. She spent a number of years as an associate in the Banking and Commercial Transactions group at Sidley & Austin. Immediately prior to joining the Institute, she held a postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical Ethics at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. At the Institute, Dr. Anderlik works on projects in the areas of managed care, disability, genetics, and privacy.
Summary
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. In this book, the author approaches managed care as a problem of organisations.
