Towards the emancipation of patients : Patients' experiences and the patient movement /

The patient movement works to improve the quality of healthcare. Some of the work entails trying to get standards of care that put patients at institutionalised disadvantage replaced by standards that free (emancipate) patients from that disadvantage. Combining new academic theory with rich empirica...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Williamson, Charlotte, 1932-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Physician and patient.
Patient satisfaction.
Patient advocacy.
Medical ethics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Work.
MEDICAL > Practice Management & Reimbursement.
MEDICAL > Administration.
Patient Satisfaction.
Ethics, Medical.
Physician-Patient Relations.
Patient Advocacy.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • One. Introduction
  • two. Setting the theoretical scene
  • three. patient movement
  • four. Radicalisation
  • five. Radical activists' new knowledge
  • six. Values, principles and standards
  • seven. ten principles
  • eight. Conflict and schism
  • nine. Allies and antagonists
  • ten. Achievements and failures
  • eleven. What next?

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