Towards an emancipation of patients : patients' experience and the patient movement / Charlotte Williamson.
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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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Bristol :
Policy,
2010.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 254 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-246) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1847427464 9781847427465 |