| Description |
viii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Critical issues in health and medicine |
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Critical issues in health and medicine.
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| Contents |
Introduction : patients as policy actors / Nancy Tomes and Beatrix Hoffman -- Solitary advocates : the severely brain injured and their surrogates / Joseph Fins and Jennifer Hersh -- Physician-patient communication in the care of vulnerable populations : the patient's voice in interpersonal policy / M. Robin DiMatteo ... [et al.] -- Is it time to push yet? The challenges to advocacy in American childbirth / Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong and Eugene DeClercq -- A pound of flesh : patient legal action for human research protections in the biotech age / Lori Andrews and Julie Burger -- From outsiders to insiders : the consumer/survivor movement and -- Its impact on American mental health policy / Nancy Tomes -- "Don't scream alone" : the health care activism of poor Americans in the 1970s / Beatrix Hoffman -- The canary in Gemeinschaft : using the public voice of patients to enhance health system performance / Mark Schlesinger -- Patient appeals as policy disputes : individual and collective action in managed care / Marc Rodwin -- The power of us : a new approach to advocacy for rare cancers / Amy Dockser Marcus -- Patients and the rise of the nurse practitioner profession / Julie Fairman -- A house on fire : newborn screening, parents' advocacy, and the discourse of urgency / Rachel Grob -- Measuring success : scientific, institutional, and cultural effects of patient advocacy / Steven Epstein |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Patient advocacy -- United States.
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Medical policy -- United States.
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Patient-Centered Care -- trends.
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Health Care Reform -- trends.
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Health Policy.
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Patient Advocacy.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Author |
Hoffman, Beatrix Rebecca.
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| LC no. |
2010041970 |
| ISBN |
9780813550503 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0813550505 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780813550510 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0813550513 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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