Medicine and the Marketplace: The Moral Dimensions of Managed Care

by Kenman L. Wong

Analyzes new ethical challenges raised by the concept of managed health care in light of the public's growing concern that health-care by profit-seeking corporations will destroy medicine's traditional commitment to patient well being. Particularly looks at whether obligations to patients and obligations to shareholders can be reconciled. Argues that managed care is the best approach, and therefore needs to be reformed. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

219 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998