Towards an emancipation of patients : patients' experience and the patient movement /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Williamson, Charlotte, 1932-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol : Policy, 2010.
Subjects:
Patient advocacy.
Patient satisfaction.
Physician and patient.
Medical ethics.
Patients > Civil rights.
Patient Advocacy
Physician-Patient Relations
Ethics, Medical
Patient Satisfaction
Patients > Droits.
Patients > Satisfaction.
Relations médecin-patient.
Éthique médicale.
MEDICAL > Administration.
MEDICAL > Practice Management & Reimbursement.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Work.
Patients > Civil rights
Medical ethics
Patient advocacy
Patient satisfaction
Physician and patient
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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