Quality Management and Managerialism in Healthcare - A Critical Historical Survey

Quality Management and Managerialism in Healthcare creates a comprehensive and systematic international survey of various perspectives on healthcare quality management together with some of their most pertinent critiques. It reviews the factors which have underpinned the managerialist trajectory of healthcare management over the past decades.

List of contents

1. Managerialism: A Historical Overview 2. Risk in Medicine: Early Developments to the 1980s 3. Quality Management in Health care 4. Models of Patient Safety and Critique 5. Evidence-based Medicine 6. Managerialism in Healthcare: Future Avenues

About the author

Matthias Beck, geb. 1956 in Hannover ist Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Dr. theol. Mag. pharm. mit abgeschlossene Studien in Pharmazie, Medizin, Philosophie, Theologie, Promotion in Medizin und Theologie und Habilitation in Moraltheologie. Seit 2007 ist er außerordentlicher Universitätsprofessor für Moraltheologie/Medizinethik an der Universität Wien. Mitgliedschaften: Österreichi-sche Bioethikkommission, Berater gremium der Europäischen Bischöfe in Brüssel (COMECE), Europäische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste, Sachverständiger im Deutschen Bundestag und Deutschen Ethikrat, Autor zahlreicher Bücher im Grenzgebiet von Naturwissenschaft, Medizin, Philosophie-Theologie.

Summary

Quality Management and Managerialism in Healthcare creates a comprehensive and systematic international survey of various perspectives on healthcare quality management together with some of their most pertinent critiques. It reviews the factors which have underpinned the managerialist trajectory of healthcare management over the past decades.

Product details

• Authors: M Beck, M. Beck, Matthia Beck, Matthias Beck, S. Melo, Sara Melo
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349469048
• ISBN: 978-1-349-46904-8
• No. of pages: 217
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 12 mm x 216 mm
• Weight: 292 g
• Illustrations: VIII, 217 p.
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