Towards the emancipation of patients : Patients' experiences and the patient movement / / Charlotte Williamson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459272203321
• Autore: Williamson Charlotte <1932->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bristol : , : Policy, , 2010; ©2010
• ISBN: 1-4473-0404-7; 1-282-70622-5; 9786612706226; 1-84742-746-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1
• Soggetti: Physician and patient; Patient satisfaction; Patient advocacy; Medical ethics; SOCIAL SCIENCE - Social Work; MEDICAL - Practice Management & Reimbursement; MEDICAL - Administration; Patient Satisfaction; Ethics, Medical; Physician-Patient Relations; Patient Advocacy; 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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?
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 empirical evidence, the author explains how looking at healthcare from an emancipatory perspective could improve its quality as patients experience it.