Towards an emancipation of patients : patients' experience 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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Main Author: Williamson, Charlotte, 1932-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Policy, 2010.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 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?