Patients, consumers and civil society /

Medical Sociology is the among the largest and first subdisciplines in Sociology. It is an area of ongoing work, advancing theory, method and our substantive understanding of social life. This series brings together the newest issues and most current concerns in Medical Sociology, in an ongoing coll...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chambré, Susan Maizel, Goldner, Melinda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley : Emerald JAI, 2008.
Colección:Advances in medical sociology ; v. 10.
Temas:
Consumers > Attitudes.
Patient advocacy.
Patients' associations.
Patients > Attitudes.
Patient Advocacy
Consommateurs > Attitudes.
Patients > Droits.
Patients > Associations.
Medical sociology.
Medical > Health Policy.
Consumers > Attitudes
Patient advocacy
Patients' associations
Patients > Attitudes
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • No longer a patient : the social construction of the medical consumer / Gayle A. Sulik and Astrid Eich-Krohm
  • Direct to consumer responsibility : medical neoliberalism in pharmaceutical advertising and drug development / Jill A. Fisher and Lorna M. Ronald
  • Making connections : egg donation, the Internet, and the new reproductive technology marketplace / Kristin Holster
  • Selling the ideal birth : rationalization and re-enchantment in the marketing of maternity care / Markella Rutherford and Selina Gallo-Cruz
  • Too posh to push? : comparative perspectives on maternal request Caesarean sections in Canada, the US, the UK and Finland / Ivy Lynn Bourgeault [and others]
  • Self-help groups challenge health care systems in the US and UK / Thomasina Borkman and Carol Munn-Giddings
  • From discovery to recovery and beyond : the role of voluntary health sector organizations in the lives of women with breast cancer / Itay Greenspan and Femida Handy
  • The clubhouse model : mental health consumer-provider partnerships for recovery / Lee Staples and Reva Stein
  • Straight from the heart / René Bekkers
  • Speaking for stem cells : biomedical activism and emerging forms of parenthood / Chris Ganchoff
  • Forging a new commons : self-help associations in Slovenia and Croatia / Ann Dill and Joanne Coury
  • Gendered networks and health care privatization / Paul Almeida and Roxana Delgado.

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