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Patients as policy actors : a century of changing markets and missions [E-Book]

Contributor(s): Series: Critical issues in health and medicinePublication details: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 309 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813550855
  • 0813550858
  • 0813550505
  • 0813550513
  • 9780813550503
  • 9780813550510
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • W 84.7
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction:Patients as Policy Actors; Part I: Voices of the Silent; Chapter 1. Solitary Advocates: The Severely Brain Injured and Their Surrogates; Chapter 2. Physician-Patient Communication in the Care of Vulnerable Populations: The Patient's Voice in Interpersonal Policy; Chapter 3. Is It Time to Push Yet?: The Challenges to Advocacy in U.S. Childbirth; Chapter 4. A Pound of Flesh: Patient Legal Action for Human Research Protections in the Biotech Age; Part II: From Individual to Collective.
Summary: Patients as Policy Actors offers groundbreaking accounts of one of the health field's most important developments of the last fifty years--the rise of more consciously patient-centered care and policymaking. The authors in this volume illustrate, from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the unexpected ways that patients can matter as both agents and objects of health care policy yet nonetheless too often remain silent, silenced, misrepresented, or ignored.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Patients as Policy Actors offers groundbreaking accounts of one of the health field's most important developments of the last fifty years--the rise of more consciously patient-centered care and policymaking. The authors in this volume illustrate, from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the unexpected ways that patients can matter as both agents and objects of health care policy yet nonetheless too often remain silent, silenced, misrepresented, or ignored.

Introduction:Patients as Policy Actors; Part I: Voices of the Silent; Chapter 1. Solitary Advocates: The Severely Brain Injured and Their Surrogates; Chapter 2. Physician-Patient Communication in the Care of Vulnerable Populations: The Patient's Voice in Interpersonal Policy; Chapter 3. Is It Time to Push Yet?: The Challenges to Advocacy in U.S. Childbirth; Chapter 4. A Pound of Flesh: Patient Legal Action for Human Research Protections in the Biotech Age; Part II: From Individual to Collective.

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