Williamson, Charlotte.

Towards the Emancipation of Patients : Patients' Experience and the Patient Movement. - 1 online resource (269 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Glossary and abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Setting the theoretical scene -- The patient movement -- Radicalisation -- Radical activists' new knowledge -- Values, principles and standards -- The ten principles -- Conflict and schism -- Allies and antagonists -- Achievements and failures -- What next? -- The principal component analysis -- References -- Index.

This highly original book examines, for the first time, how the patient movement, which works to improve the quality of healthcare, can actually be considered an emancipation movement when led by its radical elements.

9781847427465


Medical ethics.
Patient advocacy.
Patient satisfaction.
Physician and patient.


Electronic books.

R727.45.W55 2010

362.1

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