Medicine and the Marketplace: The Moral Dimensions of Managed Care

The emerging dominance of managed care provided by profit-seeking corporations has intensified the public's concern that traditional business goals of maximizing profits will destroy medicine's traditional commitment to patient well-being. Society is left to wonder how physicians can properly honor their duties to patients when the managed care organizations that employ them have financial obligations to shareholders.

Kenman L. Wong's timely book addresses issues raised by the new intersecti...