Stakeholders and Ethics in Healthcare: Ethical Accountability for Organizations

This ground-breaking book uses organizational ethics and stakeholder theory to explore the ethical accountability of leadership in healthcare organizations to their distinct vulnerable stakeholder communities.

The book begins with a discussion of the moral agency of healthcare organizations and introduces stakeholder theory. It then looks at key ethical challenges in relation to the confidentiality and privacy of healthcare data, before turning to child health and interventions around issues such as obesity, maltreatment, and parenting. The book ends by focusing on ethics of care in relation to older people and people with disabilities.

An insightful contribution to thinking about ethics for contemporary healthcare management and leadership, this interdisciplinary book is of interest to readers with a background in healthcare, business and management, law, bioethics, and theology.

Lisa A. Martinelli is a bioethicist, educator, and attorney. With more than two decades of experience as a healthcare executive, she is currently the president of Lead with Ethics focusing on organizational ethics and decision support. She is a vigorous advocate for persons with disabilities, particularly children with special needs, and dedicates much of her time to creating and advancing social programs to enhance the quality of their lives.