Medical Professionals - Conflicts and Quandaries in Medical Practice

List of contents

Part I Overview
Chapter 1
Role-Related Conflicts and Value-Laden Quandaries Confronting Today's Medical Professionals
Kathleen Montgomery and Wendy Lipworth
Part II Empirical Explorations of Conflicts and Quandaries
Chapter 2
Respecting Patient Autonomy: Some Telling Challenges for Medical Professionals Who Treat Seriously Ill Patients
Christopher Jordens and Kathleen Montgomery
Chapter 3
Off-label Prescribing: The Borderlands Between Clinical Practice and Experimentation
Narcyz Ghinea, Ian Kerridge, and Wendy Lipworth
Chapter 4
Clinical Quandaries Associated with Accelerated Access to Cancer Medicines
Jessica Pace, Narcyz Ghinea, Miriam Wiersma, Bronwen Morrell, Ian Kerridge, and Wendy Lipworth
Chapter 5
Managing and Regulating Conflicts of Interest in Medicine
Wendy Lipworth and Kathleen Montgomery
Chapter 6
Medical Professionals as Expert Advisors in Macro-allocation: Problems of Dual Agency and Conflict of Interest
Siun Gallagher
Part III Reconceptualization and Concluding Observations
Chapter 7
After Dominance: The Elastic Politics of Medicine
Christopher Jordens
Chapter 8
Value Pluralism — The Bare Bones
Miles Little
Chapter 9
Making Sense of Professional Conflicts and Quandaries
Wendy Lipworth and Kathleen Montgomery

About the author

Kathleen Montgomery is Professor of the Graduate Division and Emerita Professor of Organizations and Management at the University of California, Riverside.
Wendy Lipworth is a bioethicist and health social scientist and Associate Professor at The University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney Health Ethics.

Summary

Medical Professionals characterizes the kinds of conflicts and quandaries confronting medical professionals and places these within relevant theoretical frameworks, and presents data from four qualitative interview studies with clinicians, patients, educators, administrators, and industry practitioners.

Product details

• Authors: Kathleen Montgomery, Kathleen Lipworth Montgomery
• Assisted by: Wendy Lipworth (Editor), Kathleen Montgomery (Editor), Montgomery Kathleen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781138550117
• ISBN: 978-1-138-55011-7
• No. of pages: 158
• Series: Routledge Studies in Health Management; Routledge Studies in Health Management
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Advertising, marketing; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Government & Business, Medical profession, Organizational theory & behaviour, Sales & marketing, Sales and marketing, Organizational theory and behaviour, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, Civil service and public sector, Civil Service & Public Sector