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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hoffman, Beatrix Rebecca, Tomes, Nancy, Grob, Rachel, Schlesinger, Mark
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Series:Critical issues in health and medicine.
Subjects:
Patient advocacy > United States.
Medical policy > United States.
Patient advocacy.
Patients > Civil rights.
Medical policy.
Patient-Centered Care > trends
Patient Advocacy
Health Policy
Health Care Reform > trends
Patients > Droits > États-Unis.
Politique sanitaire > États-Unis.
Patients > Droits.
Politique sanitaire.
MEDICAL > Administration.
MEDICAL > Practice Management & Reimbursement.
MEDICAL > General.
Patients > Civil rights
Medical policy
Patient advocacy
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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