The patient movement as an emancipation movement

Health Expectations

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 102-112

  Williamson, Charlotte ^a,b  

^a PICKER INSTITUTE EUROPE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activists; Autonomy; Coercion; Emancipation; Patient movement; Radical

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; IDEOLOGY; INTELLIGENCE; KNOWLEDGE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COERCION; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT RIGHTS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIAL CHANGE;

EID: 44249122367     PISSN: 13696513     EISSN: 13697625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2007.00475.x     Document Type: Article

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