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    The ethics of hospital trustees / Bruce Jennings [and others] editors.

    • Title:The ethics of hospital trustees / Bruce Jennings [and others] editors.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Jennings, Bruce, 1949-
    • Published/Created:Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2004.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Hospital trustees--Professional ethics.
      Hospital trustees--United States.
    • Medical Subjects: Trustees--ethics.
      Hospital Administration.
      Ethics, Institutional.
    • Description:vii, 284 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
    • Series:Hastings Center studies in ethics.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:1589010159 (cloth : alk. paper)
    • Contents:Introduction : a framework for the ethics of trusteeship / Bruce Jennings, Bradford H. Gray, Virginia A. Sharpe and Alan R. Fleischman
      1. trustees' dilemma : hospitals as benevolence or business - looking back a century / Elizabeth Robilotti and David Rosner
      2. legal responsibilities or voluntary hospital trustees / J. David Seay
      3. Hospital trusteeship in an era of institutional transition : what can we learn from governance research? / Jeffrey A. Alexander
      4. role of hospitals in the community / Romana Hasnain-Wynia, Frances S. Margolin and Mary A. Pittman
      5. role of trustees and the ethics of trusteeship : findings from an empirical study / Bradford H. Gray and Linda Weiss
      6. trustees of nonprofit hospitals : dealing with money, mission, and medicine / William F. May
      7. Trustees and the moral identity of the hospital / David H. Smith
      8. Trusteeship as representation / Bruce Jennings
      9. Ethical dimensions of trusteeship on the boards of Catholic hospitals and systems / Charles J. Dougherty
      10. Hospital partnering, sales, and for-profit conversions : trustees' responsibility and perceptions in a time of change / Linda Weiss and Bradford H. Gray
      11. Fitting board information to board function / Anthony R. Kovner
      12. What hospital trustees can learn from ethics committees : pragmatism, ethics, and the governance of health care organizations / Joseph J. Fins
      13. Patient safety and the role of hospital boards / Virginia A. Sharpe.
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