This volume explores how 'the market'continues to affect and redefine health professionals as moral beings and impact on the care they provide. By reflecting on the meaning of the market and the medical profession, this ground-breaking volume identifies a variety of ways to help preserve healthcare workers' integrity and ensure compassionate care.

Part I. The Place of the Market 1. Why the Economic Calculation Debate Matters: The Case for Decentralisation in Healthcare Pythagoras Petratos 2. The Abuse of 'Ethic' in Capitalist Medicine Miran Epstein 3. Organisational Ethics: A Solution to the Challenges of Markets in Healthcare? Lucy Frith Part II. The Influence of the Market 4. Encoding Truths? Diagnosis-Related Groups and the Fragility of the Marketisation Discourse Therese Feiler 5. Personal Budgets: Holding onto the Purse Strings for Fear of Something Worse Jonathan Herring 6. "More than my job is worth" - Defensive Medicine and the Marketisation of Healthcare Anant Jani and Andrew Papanikitas 7. Covenant, Compassion, and Marketisation in Healthcare: The Mastery of Mammon and the Service of Grace Joshua Hordern Part III. The Place of Ethics 8. Commercialisation and the Corrosion of the Ideals of Medical Professionals Adrian Walsh 9. The Virtuous Professional and the Marketplace David Misselbrook 10. Empathy in Healthcare: The Limits and Scope of Empathy in Public and Private Systems Angeliki Kerasidou and Ruth Horn 11. Accounting for Ethics: Is there a Market for Morals in Healthcare? Andrew Papanikitas What next? - Editors' epilogue Therese Feiler, Joshua Hordern, Andrew Papanikitas