Towards the Emancipation of Patients: Patients' Experiences and the Patient Movement

by Charlotte Williamson

Book Overview

Despite a policy focus on involving patients in health care and increasing patient autonomy, much covert coercion of patients takes place in everyday healthcare. This book, by a leading patient activist, examines for the first time how the patient movement, which works to improve the quality of healthcare, can actually be considered an emancipation movement when led by its radical elements. In this highly original book the author argues that radical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847427448
• ISBN13: 9781847427441
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"