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Towards an emancipation of patients : patients' experience and the patient movement / Charlotte Williamson.

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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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Williamson, Charlotte, 1932-
Other title:Towards the emancipation of patients
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Policy, 2010.
Subjects:
Patient advocacy.
Patient satisfaction.
Physician and patient.
Medical ethics.
Patients > Civil rights.
Patients > Civil rights
Medical ethics
Patient advocacy
Patient satisfaction
Physician and patient
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?

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