Patients, consumers and civil society [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Susan M. Chambre, Melinda Goldner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455510103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bingley, : Emerald JAI, 2008
• ISBN: 1-280-77112-7; 9786613681898; 1-84855-215-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Collana: Advances in medical sociology, , 1057-6290 ; ; v. 10
• Altri autori (Persone): ChambréSusan Maizel; GoldnerMelinda
• Disciplina: 306.461
• Soggetti: Consumers - Attitudes; Patient advocacy; Patients' associations; Patients - Attitudes; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Patients, Consumers And Civil Society; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Chapter 1. Introduction; Acknowledgments; References; Part I: Patients, Consumers and Health Systems; Chapter 2. No Longer a Patient: The Social Construction of the Medical Consumer; Methods; Becoming a Medical Consumer; Conclusion; Note; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 3. Direct to Consumer Responsibility: Medical Neoliberalism in Pharmaceutical Advertising and Drug Development; Background; Methods; Medical Neoliberalism in Direct-to-Consumer Advertising (DTCA); Medical Neoliberalism in Clinical TrialsConclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 4. Making Connections: Egg Donation, the Internet, and the New Reproductive Technology Marketplace; Introduction; Theoretical Framework; Findings; Notes; References; Chapter 5. Selling the Ideal Birth: Rationalization and Re-Enchantment in the Marketing of Maternity Care; Introduction; Medicalization, Consumerism, and Natural Birth; Selling Birth: A Thematic Analysis of Childbirth Marketing; ; Tensions in the Rationalization and Re-Enchantment of Birth in the Hospital; Conclusion; Note; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 6. Too Posh to Push? Comparative Perspectives on Maternal Request Caesarean Sections in Canada, the US, The UK and FinlandShifting Perspectives on Medical and Maternity Consumerism; Methods; Defining Maternal Request Caesarean Sections; Impetus for the Rising Concern With MRCS; Framing MRCS as an Issue of a Woman's Right to Choose; Re-Orienting Obstetrical Policy and Practice; Discussion; Notes; References; Part II: Organizations, Culture and Political Context; Chapter 7. Self-Help Groups Challenge Health Care Systems in the US and UK; Introduction; Conceptualizations of Consumerism in HealthCharacteristics of Health Care Systems and the Voluntary Sectors of Society; The Voluntary Health Sector; National and Community Levels of Social Change and Consumer Transformation; Case 1: Personality Disorder; Case 2: Carers; Case 3: People Who Stutter - From Self-Blaming ''Victim'' to Critic of Stuttering Therapy; Case 4: Grow - from Ex-Mental Patient to Respected Member of ''A Caring and Sharing'' Community; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 8. From Discovery to Recovery and Beyond: The Role of Voluntary Health Sector Organizations in the Lives of Women with Breast CancerIntroduction; Review of the Literature; The Context: VHOs in Canada; Methods; Findings; Discussion; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 9. The Clubhouse Model: Mental Health Consumer-Provider Partnerships for Recovery; Introduction; Deinstitutionalization, Empowerment, and the Clubhouse Movement; Clubhouse Philosophy, Principles, and Methodology; Operational Model; Conclusion; References; Chapter 10. Straight from the Heart; Giving to Health in the Netherlands
• Sommario/riassunto: Medical Sociology is the among the largest and first subdisciplines in Sociology. This series presents issues and concerns in Medical Sociology.