Reconsidering patient centred care : between autonomy and abandonment

• Main Author: Pilnick, A., (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
• Subjects: Patient-centered health care.; Physician and patient.; Allied health personnel and patient.; Medical, Physician & Patient.; Medical sociology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781800717459
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 pages)

In a major contribution to the sociology of medicine, Alison Pilnick shifts the terms of the debate around patient centred care (PCC). PCC is typically framed as a moral imperative, necessary to prevent a return to the outmoded medical paternalism of the past. However, empirical research repeatedly...