Towards the Emancipation of Patients: Patients' Experiences and the Patient Movement

ISBN-13: 9781847427441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 272 str.

Charlotte Williamson

Opis

The patient movement works to improve the quality of healthcare. This work explains how looking at healthcare from an emancipatory perspective could improve its quality as patients experience it. It is suitable for health professionals, managers, patient activists, policy makers and others concerned with the quality of healthcare.

Spis treści

Introduction; Setting the theoretical scene; The patient movement; Radicalisation; Radical patient activists' new knowledge; Values, principles and standards; The ten principles; Conflict and schism; Allies and antagonists; Achievements and failures; What next?