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Making the patient-consumer : patient organisations and health consumerism in Britain / Alex Mold.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resource (x, 246 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781784992132
  • 1784992135
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making the patient-consumer.DDC classification:
  • 362.1/0420941 23
LOC classification:
  • R727.3 .M645 2015
NLM classification:
  • 2015 H-297
  • W 85
Online resources:
Contents:
1 Autonomy -- 2 Representation -- 3 Complaint -- 4 Rights -- 5 Information -- 6 Voice
Summary: Over the last fifty years, British patients have been made into consumers. Since the 1960s, concepts common within consumerism have found a place in health policy and practice. In a short space of time, the position of patients in Britain appears to have changed fundamentally. Until relatively recently, it was not uncommon for patients to be told little about the condition that they were suffering from or its likely outcome. That such a situation would be (almost) inconceivable today points not only to changes in the doctor-patient relationship, but also to a wider shift in the way in which patients see themselves and are seen by others. This book explores how and why such a shift took place, and why it was that these changes were framed by the concept of consumerism.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-232) and index.

Print version record.

1 Autonomy -- 2 Representation -- 3 Complaint -- 4 Rights -- 5 Information -- 6 Voice

Over the last fifty years, British patients have been made into consumers. Since the 1960s, concepts common within consumerism have found a place in health policy and practice. In a short space of time, the position of patients in Britain appears to have changed fundamentally. Until relatively recently, it was not uncommon for patients to be told little about the condition that they were suffering from or its likely outcome. That such a situation would be (almost) inconceivable today points not only to changes in the doctor-patient relationship, but also to a wider shift in the way in which patients see themselves and are seen by others. This book explores how and why such a shift took place, and why it was that these changes were framed by the concept of consumerism.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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