Covenant, Compassion and Marketisation in Healthcare: the mastery of Mammon and the service of grace

This chapter argues that covenantal thought and practice has the capacity to discipline marketisation processes in service of an ethos of gracious compassion in healthcare. It engages critically with the analyses of Diagnosis Related Groups, Personal Budgets and Defensive Medicine offered by Feiler,...

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Main Author: Hordern, J
Other Authors: Feiler, T
Format: Book section
Published: Routledge 2018
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