Organizational reform and health-care goods: Concerns about marketization in the UK NHS

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 221-240

  Cribb, Alan ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health care goods; Managerialism; Markets; Organizations

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MARKETING; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM;

ETHICS, INSTITUTIONAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PRIVATIZATION; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 46349092779     PISSN: 03605310     EISSN: 17445019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmp/jhn008     Document Type: Review

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