Moral leadership in medicine : building ethical healthcare organizations

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--provided By Publisher. Machine Generated Contents Note: 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. Suzanne Shale. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Content: 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. Abstract: Insightful analysis of how senior doctors manage the difficult moral problems they confront in leadership roles. Read more... What are the moral challenges that confront doctors as they manage healthcare institutions? Based on medical leaders' accounts of managing morally difficult situations, Moral Leadership in Medicine analyzes expectations of medical managers and explains how to build trust in organizations.