2008
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-008-9849-2
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Ethical Transparency and Economic Medicalization

Abstract: shareholder wealth maximization, medicalization, bioethics, medical ethics,

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“…Several issues have been analysed since the late 1990s: civic responsibility of the healthcare organisation ; the evaluation of the ethical program (Neft-Smith, Scott, Edward & Fletcher, 1997); good practices in the ethics of hospital units (Cassidy, 1998); ethical leadership (Johnston, Cruess & Cruess, 2001;Dolan, 2004;) and the challenges raised by ethics and the responsibilities of leaders in the healthcare system (Squazzo, 2012); ethical dimensions in public healthcare policies (Roberts & Reich, 2002); ethics and the safety of hospitals (Weinstein, 2002) and ethics and patient safety (Lachman, 2008); challenges of ethical committees (Collier & Sandborg, 2006;Hogstel & Curry, 2004); the ethics of decision-making (Maddalena, 2007;Slosar, 2004); ethical transparency and economic medicalisation (Poitras & Meredith, 2009); the organisational costs of ethical conflicts (Nelson, Weeks & Campfield, 2008;Hofmann, 2012); and the ethics of decisions concerning the allocation of resources (Hofmann, 2011). The aforementioned issues have the commonality that if they are not considered properly, they can weaken quality of care and organisational performance.…”
Section: And Its Institutionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Several issues have been analysed since the late 1990s: civic responsibility of the healthcare organisation ; the evaluation of the ethical program (Neft-Smith, Scott, Edward & Fletcher, 1997); good practices in the ethics of hospital units (Cassidy, 1998); ethical leadership (Johnston, Cruess & Cruess, 2001;Dolan, 2004;) and the challenges raised by ethics and the responsibilities of leaders in the healthcare system (Squazzo, 2012); ethical dimensions in public healthcare policies (Roberts & Reich, 2002); ethics and the safety of hospitals (Weinstein, 2002) and ethics and patient safety (Lachman, 2008); challenges of ethical committees (Collier & Sandborg, 2006;Hogstel & Curry, 2004); the ethics of decision-making (Maddalena, 2007;Slosar, 2004); ethical transparency and economic medicalisation (Poitras & Meredith, 2009); the organisational costs of ethical conflicts (Nelson, Weeks & Campfield, 2008;Hofmann, 2012); and the ethics of decisions concerning the allocation of resources (Hofmann, 2011). The aforementioned issues have the commonality that if they are not considered properly, they can weaken quality of care and organisational performance.…”
Section: And Its Institutionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Driven by the remarkable evolution of the medical profession in the last two decades, it is becoming gradually apparent that the medicalization concept is too diverse to be analyzed with a unifying methodology. 4,5,7,22 In particular, considerable insight is gained if medicalization is dichotomized into two categories: social medicalization, dealing with the type of social control issues that originate with Parsons, Szasz, and Wootton; and economic medicalization, dealing with the markets for medical technology and professional services driven by the corporate profit motive.…”
Section: The Concept Of Medicalizationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As Poitras and Meredith observe: "There is an ethical transparency problem." 4 The difficulty of discerning the ethical motivations of specific players within the medical profession can even occur for physicians, for whom the ethics of professional fiduciary responsibility would seem to be clear-cut, based on standards of medical ethics stretching back to the oath of Hippocrates, which first appeared around the fifth century BC. 27 The oath protects the rights of the patient by appealing to the strong character of the physician; no formal sanctions or penalties are contemplated.…”
Section: Medical Ethics Business Ethics and Bioethicsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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