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The Oxford Handbook of Health Care Management, PDF eBook

The Oxford Handbook of Health Care Management PDF

Edited by Ewan Ferlie, Kathleen Montgomery, Anne Reff Pedersen

Part of the Oxford Handbooks series

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Description

This Handbook provides an authoritative overview of current issues and debates in the field of health care management.

It contains over twenty chapters from well-known and eminent academic authors, who were carefully selected for their expertise and asked to provide a broad and critical overview of developments in their particular topic area.

The development of an international perspective and body of knowledge is a key feature of the book. The Handbook secondly makes a case for bringing back a social science perspective into the study of the field of health care management.

It therefore contains a number of contrasting and theoretically orientated chapters (e.g. on institutionalism; critical management studies). This social science based approach is a refreshing alternative to much existing work in this domain and offers a good way into current academic debates in this field. The Handbook thirdly explores a variety of important policy and organizational developments apparent within the current health care field (e.g. new organizational forms; growth of management consulting in health care organizations).

It therefore explores and comments on major contemporary trends apparent in the practice field.

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