Patients Consumers and Civil Society 1st Edition by Melinda Goldner, Susan Chambre ISBN 1848552149 9781848552142

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ISBN 10: 1848552149

ISBN 13: 9781848552142 

Author:  Melinda Goldner, Susan Chambre 

Medical Sociology is among the largest and first subdisciplines in Sociology. It is an area of ongoing work, advancing theory, method and our substantive understanding of social life. This series brings together the newest issues and most current concerns in Medical Sociology, in an ongoing collection of edited volumes. Each volume is edited by a medical sociologist with a particular expertise, bringing together contributions from sociologists working in different settings and nations, exploring one particular advance in Medical Sociology.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: No Longer a Patient: The Social Construction of the Medical Consumer
Chapter 3: Direct to Consumer Responsibility: Medical Neoliberalism in Pharmaceutical Advertising and Drug Development
Chapter 4: Making Connections: Egg Donation, the Internet, and the New Reproductive Technology Marketplace
Chapter 5: Selling the Ideal Birth: Rationalization and Re-enchantment in the Marketing of Maternity Care
Chapter 6: Too Posh to Push? Comparative Perspectives on Maternal Request Caesarean Sections in Canada, the US, the UK and Finland
Chapter 7: Self-help Groups Challenge Health Care Systems in the US and UK
Chapter 8: From Discovery to Recovery and Beyond: The Role of Voluntary Health Sector Organizations in the Lives of Women with Breast Cancer
Chapter 9: The Clubhouse Model: Mental Health Consumer–Provider Partnerships for Recovery
Chapter 10: Straight from the Heart
Chapter 11: Speaking for Stem Cells: Biomedical Activism and Emerging Forms of Patienthood
Chapter 12: Forging a New Commons: Self-help Associations in Slovenia and Croatia
Chapter 13: Gendered Networks and Health Care Privatization 

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