Patients as Policy Actors (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)

Patients as Policy Actors (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)

Beatrix Hoffman (Editor), Nancy Tomes (Editor), Rachel Grob (Editor), Mark Schlesinger (Editor), Nancy Tomes (Contributions by), Beatrix Hoffman (Contributions by), Mark Schlesinger (Contributions by), Rachel Grob (Contributions by)
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Publication Date: July 20th, 2011
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
ISBN:
9780813550510
Pages:
322
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Description

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 consciously patient-centered care and policymaking. The authors in this volume illustrate, from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the unexpected ways that patients can matter as both agents and objects of health care policy yet nonetheless too often remain silent, silenced, misrepresented, or ignored. The volume concludes with a unique epilogue outlining principles for more effectively integrating patient perspectives into a pluralistic conception of policy-making. With the recent enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, patients' and consumers' roles in American health care require more than ever the careful analysis and attention exemplified by this innovative volume.

About the Author

Beatrix Hoffman is an associate professor and chair of the department of history at Northern Illinois Unversity. She is author of The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America.

Nancy Tomes is a professor in the history department at Stony Brook University.
She is the author of several books,among them, The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life.

Rachel Grob is scholar in residence and director of national initiatives at the Center for Patient Partnerships, University of Wisconsin-Madison and healthy advocacy faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College. She is author of Testing Baby: The Transformation of New Born Screening, Parenting, and Policymaking (Rutgers Press, forthcoming).

Mark Schlesinger is a professor of health policy and a fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University and past editor of the Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law.

Praise for Patients as Policy Actors (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)

"This strong volume brings together contributors of different disciplinary and experiential backgrounds, broadening our understanding of how patient voices influence American health care policy."
— Elizabeth Toon

"Patients as Policy Actors provides food for thought on the representation of patients’ voices in a variety of health care arenas. This edited anthology is both academic and intended to foster change. It evaluates patient effectiveness, from patients’ struggles to be heard to their successful mobilization of resources for shared interests."

— Bulletin of the History of Medicine

"Despite all of the recent study of patient activism, there has been little attempt to synthesize its achievements and limitations—making the scholarship as fragmented as the activism itself. Patients as Policy Actors fills this void. It should be required reading for anyone interested in how individual patients might mobilize together to help effect meaningful health care reform in the United States."
— Barron H. Lerner, MD, PhD

"A valuable, timely book. It is a guide to developments in the field, critical with the new federal health care law soon to become fully operational. Highly recommended."

— Choice

"This is a fascinating book that greatly enhances our understanding of the complexities surrounding the place of the patient in modern health care."

— Social History of Medicine

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