Moral Leadership in Medicine – Building Ethical Healthcare Organizations

Citation

(2012), "Moral Leadership in Medicine – Building Ethical Healthcare Organizations", Leadership in Health Services, Vol. 25 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/lhs.2012.21125caa.008

Moral Leadership in Medicine – Building Ethical Healthcare Organizations

Moral Leadership in Medicine – Building Ethical Healthcare Organizations

Article Type: Recent publications From: Leadership in Health Services, Volume 25, Issue 3

Please note these are not reviews of the titles given. They are descriptions of the book, based on information provided by the publishers.Suzanne ShaleCambridge University PressISBN: 978-1-107-00615-7December 2011

Keywords: Healthcare management, Ethics in healthcare, Medical leadership

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.

Contents include:

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  Why medicine needs moral leaders

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  Creating an organizational narrative

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  Understanding normative expectations in medical moral leadership

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  Expressing fiduciary, bureaucratic and collegial propriety

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  Expressing inquisitorial and restorative propriety

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  Understanding organizational moral narrative

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  Moral leadership for ethical organizations

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  Appendix 1. How the research was done

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  Appendix 2. Accountability for clinical performance: individuals and organisations

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  Appendix 3. A brief guide to commonly used ethical frameworks

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  Index.