Towards the emancipation of patients

Patients' experiences and the patient movement

Charlotte Williamson, Williamson, Charlotte

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9781847427458
• eBook ISBN:
  9781447308669
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Health Policy

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 patient groups and individual activists who repeatedly challenge or oppose some standards in healthcare, can be seen as working in the direction of freeing patients from coercion and from its associated injustice and inequality.Combining new academic theory with rich empirical evidence, the book explains how looking at healthcare from an emancipatory perspective could improve its quality as patients experience it. It will appeal to health professionals, managers, patient activists, policy makers and others concerned with the quality of healthcare.

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Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of figures and tables
• Glossary and abbreviations
• Preface
• one: Introduction
• two: Setting the theoretical scene
• three: The patient movement
• four: Radicalisation
• five: Radical activists’ new knowledge
• six: Values, principles and standards
• seven: The ten principles
• eight: Conflict and schism
• nine: Allies and antagonists
• ten: Achievements and failures
• eleven: What next?
• Appendix: The principal component analysis
• References