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Smith and Robert M. Veatch, editors
List of contents
Preliminary Table of Contents:
Introduction: Beyond Compliance, Beyond Integrity, Beyond Clinical Ethics
Part One: Business Ethics With A Difference
1. Healthcare Business Ethics
2. Ethics is not Neutral: A Framework for Making Decisions
Part Two: The Organization as Caregiver
3. Ethics, Cost, and the Quality of Care
4. Patient Rights in a Just Organization
5. Clinicians and Conflict of Interest: A Focus on Management
6. A Fair Hearing of Appeals of Denied Coverage in Managed Care Plans
7. Organizational Ethics: A Code is Only the Beginning
Part Three: The Organization as Employer
8. Just Wages and Salaries
9. Ethics and Downsizing
10. Patient Requests for Healthcare Providers of Specific Race or Sex
11. Conscientious Objection to Participation in Certain Treatment Options
12. Union Organizing and Employee Strikes
Part Four: The Organization as Citizen
13. Responsible Advertising
14. Environmental Responsibility and the Precautionary Principle
15. Community Serving Mergers and Acquisitions
16. Socially Responsible Investing
Part Five: Institutionalizing Business and Management Ethics
17. Components of a Business Ethics Program
18. The Organizational Ethics Committee
Notes
About the author
Leonard J. Weber has been on the faculty of the University of Detroit Mercy since 1972. His work is focused on practical ethical concerns, particularly in healthcare and in business. He was selected to be the John L. Aram Visiting Professor of Business Ethics at Gonzaga University for 2000-2001. Weber has published over 70 articles and is the principal author of the "Case Studies in Ethics" column in Clinical Leadership & Management Review. He serves as an ethics consultant to several health care organizations and is past President of the Medical Ethics Resource Network of Michigan. He is an enrollee-elected member of the Board of Directors of Health Alliance Plan, a non-profit managed care organization.
Summary
Describes how to achieve the highest ethical standards in your healthcare organisation.
