Analyzes new ethical challenges raised by the concept of managed health care in light of the public's growing concern that health-care by profit-seeking corporations will destroy medicine's traditional commitment to patient well being. Particularly looks at whether obligations to patients and obligations to shareholders can be reconciled. Argues that managed care is the best approach, and therefore needs to be reformed. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Medicine and the Marketplace: The Moral Dimensions of Managed Care

Medical Books

Wong, Kenman L.

Medicine

Univ of Notre Dame Pr

The emerging dominance of managed care provided by profit-seeking corporations has intensified the public's concern that traditional business goals of maximizing profits will destroy medicine's traditional commitment to patient well-being. Society is left to wonder how physicians can properly honor their duties to patients when the managed care organizations that employ them have financial obligations to shareholders. Kenman L. Wong's book addresses issues raised by the new intersections of business and medicine with an ethical assessment of emerging health care arrangements. By focusing on organizational ethics, he offers an integrative framework that seeks to balance patient, societal, and corporate interests. To avoid overly simplistic solutions, Wong compares managed care, traditional fee-for-service arrangements, and other proposed health care reform options such as rationing programs and medical savings accounts based upon principles of fairness. Though Wong argues that managed care is the best available option, he finds fault with many current practices of managed care organizations. He evaluates the place of the profit motive in the guiding ethos of managed care organizations and addresses the pressing issue of whether or not managed care should remain the exclusive domain of nonprofit organizations. He concludes with an integration of business ethics and medical values that formulates organizational norms and specific practice reforms for managed care organizations. Medicine and the Marketplace should be read by health care practitioners, plan administrators, instructors of medical ethics, health administration, and public policy, and members of the general public interested in how managed care can be made into an ethics-driven system.

Business & Money

Business Culture

University of Notre Dame Press

Integrity is essential to Judeo-Christian business ethics. But today’s business environment is complex. Those in business, and those preparing to enter the business world, need to grapple with the question of how integrity and biblical ethics can be applied in the workplace. They need to go “beyond integrity” in their thinking. Beyond Integrity is neither excessively theoretical nor simplistic and dogmatic. Rather, it offers a balanced and pragmatic approach to a number of concrete ethical issues. Readings from a wide range of sources present competing perspectives on each issue, and real-life case studies further help the reader grapple with ethical dilemmas. The authors conclude each chapter with their own distinctly Christian commentary on the topic covered. This second edition includes recent issues that have surfaced in today’s constantly changing business culture. Revisions include: • Ethical implications of information technology, biotechnology, and other important new issues • Reflections on recent court cases that shape the moral discussion • Shorter text with increased accessibility to the reader With the goal of helping readers arrive at their own conclusions, this book provides a decision-making model. Beyond Integrity equips men and women to develop a biblically based approach to the ethical challenges of twenty-first century business.

Beyond Integrity: A Judeo-Christian Approach to Business Ethics

Rae, Scott

Zondervan

Beyond Integrity is neither excessively theoretical nor simplistic and dogmatic. Rather, it offers a balanced and pragmatic approach to a number of concrete ethical issues. Readings from a wide range of sources present competing perspectives on each issue, and real-life case studies further help the reader grapple with ethical dilemmas. The authors conclude each chapter with their own distinctly Christian commentary on the topic covered. This third edition has been revised to provide the most up-to-date introduction to the issues Christians face in today’s constantly changing business culture. Revisions include: • 30 new case studies • Numerous new readings • 50% substantially revised • Sidebars reflecting issues in the news and business press • Summaries and material for discussion With the goal of helping readers arrive at their own conclusions, this book provides a decision-making model. Beyond Integrity equips men and women to develop a biblically-based approach to the ethical challenges of twenty-first century business.

Reference

Zondervan Academic

Integrity is essential to Judeo-Christian business ethics. But today's business environment is complex. Those in business, and those preparing to enter the business world, need to grapple with the question of how integrity and biblical ethics can be applied in the workplace. They need to go 'beyond integrity' in their thinking. Beyond Integrity is neither excessively theoretical nor simplistic and dogmatic. Rather, it offers a balanced and pragmatic approach to a number of concrete ethical issues. Readings from a wide range of sources present competing perspectives on each issue, and real-life case studies further help the reader grapple with ethical dilemmas. The authors conclude each chapter with their own distinctly Christian commentary on the topic covered.

Integridad al máximo (Spanish Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Vida

Is business just a way to make money? Or can the marketplace a venue for service to others? Scott B. Rae and Kenman L. Wong seek to explore this and other critical business issues from a uniquely Christian perspective, offering up a vision for work and service that is theologically grounded and practically oriented. Among the specific questions they address along the way are these: 
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<li>What implications does the Christian story have for the vision, mission or sense of purpose that shapes business engagement?</li>
<li>What parts of business can be affirmed and practiced "as is" and what parts need to be rejected or transformed? </li>
<li>What challenges exist as attempts are made to live out Christian ideals in a broken world characterized by tight margins, fierce competition and short-term investor pressures? </li>
<li>How do Christian values inform specific functional areas of business such as the management of people, marketing and environmental sustainability? </li>
</ul> Business can be even more than an environment through which individual Christians grow in Christlikeness. In this book you'll discover how it can also be a means toward serving the common good.

Business for the Common Good: A Christian Vision for the Marketplace (Christian Worldview Integration Series)

Rae, Scott B.

IVP Academic

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Medicine and the Marketplace: The Moral Dimensions of Managed Care

Medicine and the Marketplace: The Moral Dimensions of Managed Care

Beyond Integrity: A Judeo-Christian Approach to Business Ethics

Beyond Integrity: A Judeo-Christian Approach to Business Ethics

Integridad al máximo (Spanish Edition)

Business for the Common Good: A Christian Vision for the Marketplace (Christian Worldview Integration Series)