Ethics, Management and Mythology: Rational Decision Making for Health Service Professionals by Michael Loughlin
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Ethics, Management and Mythology
Summary
This work provides an introduction to ethics, conceptual analysis, critical thinking and rational decision making, in relation to healthcare management. It strips away the mythology behind the rhetoric of contemporary management theory.
Ethics, Management and Mythology Summary
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'This book will be a catalyst for change. Essential reading for all health managers and policy makers' David Seedhouse, in the Foreword
Table of Contents
Analytical table of contents * Section One: Management, morals and philosophy: a start * Who this book is for, and who it is not for * The nature of morality * Section Two: The morass of management theory * The illusion of quality * The pseudo-science of management * Section Three: Philosophy: a course in moral and intellectual self-defence * The fall of philosophy * And the rise of the 'ethicist' * Section Four: Education in an Irrational World * Agent-centred ethies and the nature of value * The sort of managers we want, and the sort we don't get * Notes * Bibliography
Additional information
GOR010415631
9781857755749
185775574X
Ethics, Management and Mythology: Rational Decision Making for Health Service Professionals by Michael Loughlin
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2001-11-30
260
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