Patients as Policy Actors

by Beatrix Hoffman

Book Overview

Patients as Policy Actors offers groundbreaking accounts of one of the health field's most important developments of the last fifty years--the rise of more consciously patient-centered care and policymaking. The authors in this volume illustrate, from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the unexpected ways that patients can matter as both agents and objects of health care policy yet nonetheless too often remain silent, silenced, misrepresented,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813550513
• ISBN13: 9780813550510
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"