Managing Modern Healthcare seeks to draw a number of important and grounded lessons about how management networks develop and influence the spread of management knowledge and practice; how management training and development relates to the needs of managers facing challenging conditions; and how those conditions are shaping the nature of healthcare management.

Managing Healthcare: Themes and Issues -- Contextualizing Healthcare Management -- Studying Management in Healthcare -- Being a Manager -- Becoming a Manager -- Managers Knowing -- Managers Networking -- Managing Healthcare: Tensions and Prospects.