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

Numerous case examples illustrate fundamental topics such as cost containment, health insurance, primary care, and physician and hospital payment. In addition,

Bringing together an international selection of leading scholars and representatives from patients’ organizations, this comprehensive collection explores the

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

What is the role of activists and civil society in defining and defending the collective good in healthcare, especially in cases where that good seems to be hea