Business Ethics in Healthcare: Beyond Compliance

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