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Patients as policy actors : a century of changing markets and missions /

Patients as Policy Actors offers groundbreaking accounts of one of the health field's most important developments of the last fifty years--the rise of more consciously patient-centered care and policymaking. The authors in this volume illustrate, from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the une...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hoffman, Beatrix Rebecca, Tomes, Nancy, Grob, Rachel, Schlesinger, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Colección:Critical issues in health and medicine.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction:Patients as Policy Actors; Part I: Voices of the Silent; Chapter 1. Solitary Advocates: The Severely Brain Injured and Their Surrogates; Chapter 2. Physician-Patient Communication in the Care of Vulnerable Populations: The Patient's Voice in Interpersonal Policy; Chapter 3. Is It Time to Push Yet?: The Challenges to Advocacy in U.S. Childbirth; Chapter 4. A Pound of Flesh: Patient Legal Action for Human Research Protections in the Biotech Age; Part II: From Individual to Collective.