Managerial Ethics

In May 1922, 68 years ago, The American Academy of Political and Social Science devoted an entire issue to the ethics of the professions and business. It is clear that concern with ethics is far from new. However, it is the content of that concern that has changed so much over the years in the health field. The individual struggle with justice-right and wrong-remains essentially the same. Meanwhile, in the last two decades particularly, there has been mounting concern with the ethical management of society’s organizations. This concern ranges from national goverment to structures closer at hand, particularly the health care system. Specifically this chapter is concerned with menagement in the spectrum of organizations devoted to health and illness.