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Article: Organization Ethics in Health Care.(Review)
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- The Hastings Center Report
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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Organization Ethics in Health Care. By Edward M. Spencer, Ann E. Mills, Mary V. Rorty, and Patricia H. Werhane. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 256 pp. $39.95.
Organizing Ethics
This book may seem to be responding to the 1995 accreditation standards of the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, which have stimulated increasing interest in business, institutional, and organization ethics, but it is hardly a how-to manual to prepare for an accreditation site visit. Not until chapter eight, in fact, does the book turn its attention to the problem of developing a "positive ethical climate" in health care ...