Beyond reason? : the National Health Service and the limits of management
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Beyond reason? : the National Health Service and the limits of management
(Stirling management series)
Avebury, c1996
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Papers from the first Stirling Professions and Management Conference
Over thirty conference papers published in three books: The professional-managerial class - Professions at bay - Beyond reason
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This text discusses the National Health Service and the limits of management. It is divided into five parts: introduction and context; commodification; differentiation; rationalization; and conclusion.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Introduction and context: introduction - reason, rationality and the NHS, John Leopold, Ian Glover and Michael Hughes
- in search of health and efficiency - the NHS 1948-94, Michael Kelly and Ian Glover. Part 2 Commodification: human resource managers as professionals in managing change in NHS trusts, Colin Bryson, Michael Jackson and John Leopold
- a management role for the general practitioner?, Sheila Greenfield and Amanda Nayak
- "practices" and market-control - work experiences of doctors, scientists and engineers, Terry McNulty, Richard Whittington and Richard Whipp. Part 3 Differentiation: the crucial role of professional status in promoting change - the development of services for HIV/AIDS, Chris Bennett
- contracts, resources and resistance to change - power and professional relations in the London teaching hospital, Ian Tilley
- in or out of management? Dilemmas and developments in public health medicine in England, Sandra Dawson, Jim Sherval and Veronica Mole
- doctors in management - a challenge to established debates, Sue Dopson
- clinical management - the impact of a changing context on a changing profession, Louise FitzGerald. Part 4 Rationalization: the role of clinicians in the management of the NHS, Lynn Ashburner
- professions and management in the public sector - the experience of local government and the NHS in Britain, James Harrison and Sandra Nutley. Part 5 Conclusion: the future - realism and diversity?, Ian Glover and John Leopold.
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