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Marketisation, ethics and healthcare: Policy, practice and moral formation
- Abstract:
- How does the market affect and redefine healthcare? The marketisation of Western healthcare systems has now proceeded well into its fourth decade. But the nature and meaning of the phenomenon has become increasingly opaque amidst changing discourses, policies and institutional structures. Moreover, ethics has become focussed on dealing with individual, clinical decisions and neglectful of the political economy which shapes healthcare. This interdisciplinary volume approaches marketisation by exploring the debates underlying the contemporary situation and by introducing reconstructive and reparative discourses. The first part explores contrary interpretations of ‘marketisation’ on a systemic level, with a view to organisational-ethical formation and the role of healthcare ethics. The second part presents the marketisation of healthcare at the level of policy-making, discusses the ethical ramifications of specific marketisation measures and considers the possibility of reconciling market forces with a covenantal understanding of healthcare. The final part examines healthcare workers’ and ethicists’ personal moral standing in a marketised healthcare system, with a view to preserving and enriching virtue, empathy and compassion.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Authors
Contributors
+ Feiler, T
- Role:
- Editor
+ Hordern, J
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Oxford college:
- Harris Manchester College
- Role:
- Editor
+ Papanikitas, A
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- Medical Sciences Division
- Department:
- Primary Care
- Sub department:
- Primary Care Health Sciences
- Role:
- Editor
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Journal:
- Marketisation, ethics and healthcare: Policy, practice and moral formation More from this journal
- Series:
- Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society
- Publication date:
- 2018-01-30
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- Deposit date:
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2017-08-17
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- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- The available file is the accepted manuscript of the introduction to the book. The full final version of this book is available online from Routledge at: https://www.routledge.com/Marketisation-Ethics-and-Healthcare-Policy-Practice-and-Moral-Formation/Feiler-Hordern-Papanikitas/p/book/9781138735736
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