This volume addresses the nature of health care organizational ethics, including such issues as corporate fraud and institutional moral integrity, and covers the broad range of issues that must be addressed for a coherent discussion of organizational moral responsibility. Its unique coverage makes it of interest to researchers, students and professionals working in the fields of bioethics, health care administration and management, organizational science, and business ethics.

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Acknowledgements. Institutional Integrity in Health Care: Essential for Organizational Ethics; A. Smith Iltis. Inference Gaps in Moral Assessments and the Moral Agency of Health Care Organizations; P.A. French. Institutional Integrity in Health Care: Tony Soprano and Family Values; W.M.K. Wildes, S.J. Sustaining Institutional Ethics and Integrity: Management in a Postmodern Moment; R.C. Arnett, J.M. Harden Fritz. Business Ethics, Organization Ethics, and Systems Ethics for Health Care; P.H. Werhane. The Health Care Institution/Patient Relationship; G. Logue, S. Wear. Creating an Institutional Ethical Identity; S.J. Reiser. Institutional Integrity; C. Tollefsen. Institutional Integrity through Periods of Significant Change: Loma Linda University's 100-Year Struggle with Organizational Identity; D.M. Covrig. Organizational Ethics: Moral Obligation and Integrity; A. Smith Iltis. Notes on Contributors. Index.