Rethinking Healthcare Improvement: Philosophy and Ethics in Practice

What is 'good' healthcare? Can we define and deliver it, or will we simply make things better for some people and worse for others? Bringing together the fields of philosophy and healthcare quality, this open access book provides a much-needed framework for understanding and navigating the conceptual and ethical issues at the heart of healthcare improvement.

Acknowledging the complexity in attempts to raise the quality of healthcare, including from different cultural and intellectual perspe...