Journal of Health Organization and Management: Volume 17 Issue 6

Using a technological community framework to manage new medical technologies: The case of umbilical cord blood (UCB) banking

C.A. Rusinko, D.A. Sesok‐Pizzini

A technological community framework can be used to explain and manage new medical technologies. It describes emergence, commercialization, and standardization of an innovation or…

Family‐friendly policies: general nurses’ preferences and experiences

Sarah Robinson, Barbara Davey, Trevor Murrells

While European Union policy emphasises that one of the aims of family‐friendly working arrangements is to increasing gender equality, in the UK the focus has been primarily on…

Downsizing in the public sector: Metro‐Toronto's hospitals

Douglas H. Flint

This study has two objectives. First, to predict the outcomes of a public sector downsizing; second to measure effects of downsizing at organizational and inter‐organizational…

Managerial skills of principal physicians assessed by their colleagues: A lesson from Finland

Esko Kumpusalo, Irma Virjo, Kari Mattila, Hannu Halila

The purpose of this paper was to discover the views of doctors regarding the managerial skills of their principal physicians and the views of doctors of their postgraduate…

Fundamental shortcomings of evidence‐based medicine

Govert Valkenburg, Hans Achterhuis, André Nijhof

The development of any scientific theory has a certain logic. Bruno Latour formulated a theory, describing the development of science and technology. Outcomes of science are not…

Inequity and Madness: Psychosocial and Human Rights Issues

Iain Smith

Strange Bedfellows: How Medical Jurisprudence Has Influenced Medical Ethics and Medical Practice

Iain Smith