Patients as policy actors
By: edited by Beatrix Hoffman ... [et al.].
Series: Critical issues in health and medicine; Critical issues in health and medicine
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780813550503; 9780813550510
Subjects: Health Policy; Trends; Medical policy; Health Care Reform; Patient advocacy; Patient-Centered Care; Patient Advocacy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : patients as policy actors / Nancy Tomes and Beatrix Hoffman; title: Solitary advocates : the severely brain injured and their surrogates / Joseph Fins and Jennifer Hersh; title: Physician-patient communication in the care of vulnerable populations : the patient's voice in interpersonal policy / M. Robin DiMatteo ... [et al.]; title: Is it time to push yet? The challenges to advocacy in American childbirth / Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong and Eugene DeClercq; title: A pound of flesh : patient legal action for human research protections in the biotech age / Lori Andrews and Julie Burger; title: From outsiders to insiders : the consumer/survivor movement and; title: Its impact on American mental health policy / Nancy Tomes; title: "Don't scream alone" : the health care activism of poor Americans in the 1970s / Beatrix Hoffman; title: The canary in Gemeinschaft : using the public voice of patients to enhance health system performance / Mark Schlesinger; title: Patient appeals as policy disputes : individual and collective action in managed care / Marc Rodwin; title: The power of us : a new approach to advocacy for rare cancers / Amy Dockser Marcus; title: Patients and the rise of the nurse practitioner profession / Julie Fairman; title: A house on fire : newborn screening, parents' advocacy, and the discourse of urgency / Rachel Grob; title: Measuring success : scientific, institutional, and cultural effects of patient advocacy / Steven Epstein.