Negotiating Health Care: The Social Context of Chronic Illness

by Sally E. Thorne

Book Overview

Contributing a unique perspective to health reform, Negotiating Health Care presents the findings of a large qualitative investigation of the experiences of the chronically ill within today′s health care system. The author develops the argument that chronic illness and acute illness are social experiences of a vastly different order that lead to different health care consequences, especially in a health system geared to the "miracle cure." From...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803949189
• ISBN13: 9780803949188
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"