Moral Leadership in Medicine

Building Ethical Healthcare Organizations

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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What are the moral challenges that confront doctors as they manage healthcare institutions? How do we build trust in medical organisations? How do we conceptualize moral action? Based on accounts given by senior doctors from organisations throughout the UK, this book discusses the issues medical leaders find most troubling and identifies the moral tensions they face. Moral Leadership in Medicine examines in detail how doctors protect patients' interests, implement morally controversial change, manage colleagues in difficulty and rebuild trust after serious medical harm. The book discusses how leaders develop moral narratives to make sense of these situations, how they behave while balancing conflicting moral goals and how they influence those around them to do the right thing in difficult circumstances. Based on empirical ethical analysis, this volume is essential reading for clinicians in leadership roles and students and academics in the fields of healthcare management, medical law and healthcare ethics.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-12-22
Mått160 x 240 x 16 mm
Vikt650 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor310
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107006157

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Dr Suzanne Shale conducts research, teaches and provides independent advice in the fields of medical ethics and patient experience. She is senior tutor in medical ethics in the School of Medicine, King's College London and holds a senior research role in the Health Experiences Research Group, University of Oxford. She works regularly with the Royal College of Surgeons and the General Medical Council. She has been a member of the National Social Care Research Ethics Committee since its inception, and was the first chair of the College of Emergency Medicine's Lay Advisory Group. She was previously Fellow and Lecturer in Law at New College, University of Oxford, and founding Director of the University's Institute for the Advancement of University Learning.

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Why medicine needs moral leaders; 2. Creating an organizational narrative; 3. Understanding normative expectations in medical moral leadership; Prologue to chapters four and five; 4. Expressing fiduciary, bureaucratic and collegial propriety; 5. Expressing inquisitorial and restorative propriety; Epilogue to chapters four and five; 6. Understanding organizational moral narrative; 7. Moral leadership for ethical organizations; Appendix 1. How the research was done; Appendix 2. Accountability for clinical performance: individuals and organisations; Appendix 3. A brief guide to commonly used ethical frameworks; Index.

'Dr Shale's book is an outstanding contribution to medical ethics. Its combination of theoretical reflection and empirical research is robust and insightful. I believe that her examination of the ways personal, organizational and situational ethics interact is profound and important for understanding real world healthcare. She writes with wit and grace. This is a superb book, which should be on the desk of anyone who thinks seriously about medical ethics and about the organisation of healthcare.' Richard Ashcroft, Queen Mary, University of London