Patients as Policy Actors offers groundbreaking accounts of one of the health field's most important developments of the last fifty years--the rise of more cons

Patient organizations and social health movements offer one of the most important and illuminating examples of civil society engagement and participation in sci

In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must l

This book explores the extent to which globalisation and commercialisation relate to current and emerging health policies. It also looks at the implications for

The chapters in Patient Care and Professionalism are ordered so that the main character in this book, the patient, has the first voice, followed by the ancient