Making the patient-consumer: Patient organisations and health consumerism in Britain
Alex Mold
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Description for Making the patient-consumer: Patient organisations and health consumerism in Britain
Hardcover. Explores the development of patient-consumerism from the 1960s to 2010 in relation to seven key areas: patient autonomy, representation, complaint, rights, information, voice and choice. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JKS; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 24. Weight in Grams: 536.
Over the last fifty years, British patients have been transformed into consumers. This book considers how and why the figure of the patient-consumer was brought into being, paying particular attention to the role played by patient organisations. Making the patient-consumer explores the development of patient-consumerism from the 1960s to 2010 in relation to seven key areas. Patient autonomy, representation, complaint, rights, information, voice and choice were all central to the making of the patient-consumer. These concepts were used initially by patient organisations, but by the 1990s the government had taken over as the main actor shaping ideas about patient-consumerism. This ... Read more
Over the last fifty years, British patients have been transformed into consumers. This book considers how and why the figure of the patient-consumer was brought into being, paying particular attention to the role played by patient organisations. Making the patient-consumer explores the development of patient-consumerism from the 1960s to 2010 in relation to seven key areas. Patient autonomy, representation, complaint, rights, information, voice and choice were all central to the making of the patient-consumer. These concepts were used initially by patient organisations, but by the 1990s the government had taken over as the main actor shaping ideas about patient-consumerism. This ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719095313
SKU
V9780719095313
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99-15
About Alex Mold
Alex Mold is Senior Lecturer in History in the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine -- .
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