Towards the Emancipation of Patients : Patients' Experience and the Patient Movement.
Material type: TextPublisher: Bristol : Policy Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (269 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781847427465Subject(s): Medical ethics | Patient advocacy | Patient satisfaction | Physician and patientGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Towards the Emancipation of Patients : Patients' Experience and the Patient MovementDDC classification: 362.1 LOC classification: R727.45.W55 2010Online resources: Click to ViewIntro -- 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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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