Humanizing Healthcare Reforms - Arbuckle, Gerald (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2012)
Looking at the current turmoil facing contemporary healthcare systems worldwide, resulting from relentless imposition of financially-based performance indicators, the author argues that a return to a values-based approach to healthcare will create positive transformation. Writing from the fresh perspective of social anthropology, the author takes a highly pragmatic approach to practice, emphasizing the importance of values such as compassion, solidarity and social justice. He suggests that without being able clearly to identify the values and goals that unite their members, healthcare organiza
Humanizing Healthcare Reforms; Foreword by Dr Maria Theresa Ho; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Power and Complexity of Culture:Healthcare Insights; Chapter 2 Healthcare Models in Conflict: Whatabout the Patient?; Chapter 3 Tribalism between Clinicians andManagers: Risk to Patients; Chapter 4 Bullying in Healthcare Institutions:An Anthropological Perspective; Chapter 5 Leading Cultural Change in Healthcare; Chapter 6 Leading Mergers in Healthcare:Cultural Processes; Chapter 7 Faith-Based Healthcare: Case Study; Discussion Questions; Further Reading; References; Index; Blank Page