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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Williamson, Charlotte, 1932-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Bristol : Policy, 2010.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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