Nancy Berlinger

Are Workarounds Ethical?

Managing Moral Problems in Health Care Systems

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book draws on medical sociology, complexity science, and political philosophy to describe how complex health care systems contribute to common ethical challenges and create pressure on health care professionals and other staff to improvise remedies to compensate for flawed structures or policies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9780190269296
• ISBN-10: 0190269294
• Artikelnr.: 47863081

Autorenporträt

Nancy Berlinger is a Research Scholar at The Hastings Center

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Should You Wash Your Hands?
2. Are Workarounds Ethical?
3. Turfing, Bending, and Gaming
4. Dirty Hands and the Semiclear Conscience
5. Problems of Humanity
6. Ethics Without Heroics: Foreseeing Moral Problems in Complex Systems
Notes
Index