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Consumerism in Medicine

Author : Marie R. Haug
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780835784283
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Consumerism in Medicine written by Marie R. Haug and published by . This book was released on with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctors have long been regarded as figures of power by their patients. The doctor, who possesses mysterious and specialized skills, is in a position of authority over the patient -- an authority which is legitimized by the state through its restrictions on who can practise medicine. This book charts the rise of the consumerist movement in medicine. The movement is a challenge to the traditional doctor-patient role in that it questions the authority of the doctor to dispense cures and the duty of patients to accept those cures without question. The consumerist movement sees that there is a bargain being struck between patient and doctor, and that it is the right of the patient as buyer to question the claims of the doctor as seller. The authors attempt to gauge the size and strength of this movement through a national survey of health care consumers and of physicians. The causes and manifestations of the consumerist movement are reviewed, as are the reactions of doctors to it and its effect on the overall utilization of health care facilities. The book will be of immense value to those interested in changes in health care, and to professionals and administrators in health care services.

Remaking the American Patient

Author : Nancy Tomes
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469622785
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Remaking the American Patient written by Nancy Tomes and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explores the consequences of the consumer economy and American medicine having come of age at exactly the same time. Tracing the robust development of advertising, marketing, and public relations within the medical profession and the vast realm we now think of as "health care," Tomes considers what it means to be a "good" patient. As she shows, this history of the coevolution of medicine and consumer culture tells us much about our current predicament over health care in the United States. Understanding where the shopping model came from, why it was so long resisted in medicine, and why it finally triumphed in the late twentieth century helps explain why, despite striking changes that seem to empower patients, so many Americans remain unhappy and confused about their status as patients today.

Making the Patient-consumer

Author : Alex Mold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780719095313
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Making the Patient-consumer written by Alex Mold and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last fifty years, British patients have been transformed into consumers. This book considers how and why the figure of the patient-consumer was brought into being, paying particular attention to the role played by patient organisations. Making the patient-consumer explores the development of patient-consumerism from the 1960s to 2010 in relation to seven key areas. Patient autonomy, representation, complaint, rights, information, voice and choice were all central to the making of the patient-consumer. These concepts were used initially by patient organisations, but by the 1990s the government had taken over as the main actor shaping ideas about patient-consumerism. This volume is the first empirical, historical account of a fundamental shift in modern British health policy and practice. The book will be of use to historians, public policy analysts and all those attempting to better understand the nature of contemporary healthcare.

Healthcare Digital Transformation

Author : Edward W. Marx
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000097757
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healthcare Digital Transformation written by Edward W. Marx and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-08-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a reference guide for healthcare executives and technology providers involved in the ongoing digital transformation of the healthcare sector. The book focuses specifically on the challenges and opportunities for health systems in their journey toward a digital future. It draws from proprietary research and public information, along with interviews with over one hundred and fifty executives in leading health systems such as Cleveland Clinic, Partners, Mayo, Kaiser, and Intermountain as well as numerous technology and retail providers. The authors explore the important role of technology and that of EHR systems, digital health innovators, and big tech firms in the ongoing digital transformation of healthcare. Importantly, the book draws on the accelerated learnings of the healthcare sector during the COVID-19 pandemic in their digital transformation efforts to adopt telehealth and virtual care models. Features of this book: Provides an understanding of the current state of digital transformation and the factors influencing the ongoing transformation of the healthcare sector. Includes interviews with executives from leading health systems. Describes the important role of emerging technologies; EHR systems, digital health innovators, and more. Includes case studies from innovative health organizations. Provides a set of templates and frameworks for developing and implementing a digital roadmap. Based on best practices from real-life examples, the book is a guidebook that provides a set of templates and frameworks for digital transformation practitioners in healthcare.

How Doctors Think

Author : Jerome Groopman
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547348630
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book How Doctors Think written by Jerome Groopman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2008-03-12 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong—with catastrophic consequences. In this myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make. Groopman explores why doctors err and shows when and how they can—with our help—avoid snap judgments, embrace uncertainty, communicate effectively, and deploy other skills that can profoundly impact our health. This book is the first to describe in detail the warning signs of erroneous medical thinking and reveal how new technologies may actually hinder accurate diagnoses. How Doctors Think offers direct, intelligent questions patients can ask their doctors to help them get back on track. Groopman draws on a wealth of research, extensive interviews with some of the country’s best doctors, and his own experiences as a doctor and as a patient. He has learned many of the lessons in this book the hard way, from his own mistakes and from errors his doctors made in treating his own debilitating medical problems. How Doctors Think reveals a profound new view of twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients the vital information they need to make better judgments together.

Can Medicine Be Cured?

Author : Seamus O'Mahony
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788544536
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Can Medicine Be Cured? written by Seamus O'Mahony and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fierce, honest, elegant and often hilarious debunking of the great fallacies that drive modern medicine. By the award-winning author of The Way We Die Now. Seamus O'Mahony writes about the illusion of progress, the notion that more and more diseases can be 'conquered' ad infinitum. He punctures the idiocy of consumerism, the idea that healthcare can be endlessly adapted to the wishes of individuals. He excoriates the claims of Big Science, the spending of vast sums on research follies like the Human Genome Project. And he highlights one of the most dangerous errors of industrialized medicine: an over-reliance on metrics, and a neglect of things that can't easily be measured, like compassion. 'A deeply fascinating and rousing book' Mail on Sunday. 'What makes this book a delightful, if unsettling read, is not just O'Mahony's scholarly and witty prose, but also his brutal honesty' The Times.

Chinese Medicine Men

Author : Sherman Cochran
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674021617
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Medicine Men written by Sherman Cochran and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cochran reconsiders the nature and role of consumer culture in the spread of globalization and illuminates enduring features of the Chinese experience of consumer culture. The history of Chinese medicine men in pre-socialist China, he suggests, has relevance for the 21st century because they achieved goals that resonate with their successors today.

Connecting with the New Healthcare Consumer

Author : David B. Nash
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780834220041
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Connecting with the New Healthcare Consumer written by David B. Nash and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2001 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership/Management/Administration

The Sociology of Consumption

Author : Joel Stillerman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745696910
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of Consumption written by Joel Stillerman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach offers college students, scholars, and interested readers a state-of-the-art overview of consumption the desire for, purchase, use, display, exchange, and disposal of goods and services. The book’s global focus, emphasis on social inequality, and analysis of consumer citizenship offer a timely, exciting, and original approach to the topic. Looking beyond the U.S. and Europe, Stillerman engages examples from his and others’ research in Chile and other Latin American countries, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and East and South Asia to explore the interaction between global and local forces in consumption. The text explores the lived experience of being a consumer, demonstrating how social inequalities based on class, gender, sexuality, race, and age shape consumer practices and identities. Finally, the book uncovers the important role consumption has played in fueling local and international activism. This welcome new book will be ideal for classes on consumer culture across the social sciences, humanities, and marketing.

Key Concepts in Medical Sociology

Author : Jonathan Gabe
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761974420
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Key Concepts in Medical Sociology written by Jonathan Gabe and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004-04-10 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides a systematic and accessible introduction to medical sociology, beginning each 1500 word entry with a definition of the concept, then examines its origins, development, strengths and weaknesses, offering further reading guidance for independent learning, and drawing on international literature and examples.

Why Healthcare Matters

Author : Frank Hone
Publisher : Human Resource Development
ISBN 13 : 1599961539
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Why Healthcare Matters written by Frank Hone and published by Human Resource Development. This book was released on 2008 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Healthcare Matters is a practical guide to help influential business executives and leaders address a major crisis of our time ? healthcare. Frank Hone, a healthcare consumerism advocate and practitioner, takes a big picture look at what's wrong with healthcare in the U.S. and provides a set of practical, market-based strategies and solutions. The core idea of Why Healthcare Matters is that the solution lies in personal responsibility and employer engagement. And the heart of the book is a seven-step plan of action to drive substantial change in healthcare in your company.

Patients as Policy Actors

Author : Beatrix Hoffman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813550858
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Patients as Policy Actors written by Beatrix Hoffman and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Consumer-centric Healthcare

Author : Colin Konschak
Publisher : Ache Management Series
ISBN 13 : 9781567933673
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Consumer-centric Healthcare written by Colin Konschak and published by Ache Management Series. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patients are not passive recipients of care. They are active customers. And successful healthcare providers understand that the customer is king. Consumer-Centric Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges for Providers is an easy-to-follow blueprint for understanding and adapting to consumerism. Each chapter explores key trends and outlines the implications for your organization. The authors focus on growth opportunities and provide the resources you need to start implementing change. The book is filled with practical strategies, examples from leading organizations, tips and insights, web links, and suggestions for further reading. Topics explored include: Patients' desires and expectations Provider transparency The role of information technology Personal health records Consumer-directed health plans Convenience care and boutique medicine Telemedicine Global and regional medical tourism The impact of social media Direct marketing to consumers

Selling Immunity Self, Culture and Economy in Healthcare and Medicine

Author : Mark Davis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000542130
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Selling Immunity Self, Culture and Economy in Healthcare and Medicine written by Mark Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selling Immunity Self, Culture and Economy in Healthcare and Medicine provides a groundbreaking study of the ways in which immunity shapes life. Through its up-to-date discussion of immunity cultures, alongside detailed real-world examples, the book demonstrates how immunity is enmeshed in concepts of possessive individualism, self-defence and health consumerism. The book explores the rich metaphorical powers of immunity and the life narratives it inspires with reference to the talk of scientists, immunology texts and popular science magazines. The author provides a detailed overview of the ways in which digital media can shape the immune self with reference to cultural and social theories, providing insight into how immunitary knowledge and products are consumed and the benefits and drawbacks this has for healthcare. The book considers the significance of immunity for individuals navigating the threats to health that arise with pandemics and superbugs, with a keen look into how these ideas surface in everyday life across the globe. Finally, the book also discusses economic bases of healthcare technologies bent towards the protection and restoration of immunity. This book is essential reading for professionals within the fields of psychology, sociology, biomedical science, healthcare and other related disciplines. A broader audience will appreciate the book’s attention on the ways immunity is understood to be a personal possession, an object of life craft, and the basis for healthcare consumerism.

The Changing Landscape of China's Consumerism

Author : Alison Hulme
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1780634420
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Changing Landscape of China's Consumerism written by Alison Hulme and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumerism in China has developed rapidly. The Changing Landscape of China's Consumerism looks at the growth of consumerism in China from both a socio-economic and a political/cultural angle. It examines changing trends in consumption in China as well as the impact of these trends on society, and the politics and culture surrounding them. It examines the ways in which, despite needing to "unlock" the spending power of the rural provinces, the Chinese authorities are also keen to maintain certain attitudes towards the Communist Party and socialism "with Chinese Characteristics." Overall, it aims to show that consumerism in China today is both an economic and political phenomenon and one which requires both surrounding political culture and economic trends for its continued establishment. The ways in which this dual relationship both supports and battles with itself are explored through apposite case studies including the use of New Confucianism in the market context, the commodification of Lei Feng, the new Chinese tourist as a diplomatic tool in consumption, the popularity of Shanzhai (fake product) culture, and the conspicuous consumption of China's new middle class. - Provides innovative interdisciplinary research, useful to cultural studies, sociology, Chinese studies, and politics - Examines changes in consumerism from multiple perspectives - Allows both micro and macro insights into consumerism in China by providing specific case studies, while placing these within the context of geo-politics and grand theory

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption

Author : Frank Trentmann
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191624349
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption written by Frank Trentmann and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term 'consumption' covers the desire for goods and services, their acquisition, use, and disposal. The study of consumption has grown enormously in recent years, and it has been the subject of major historiographical debates: did the eighteenth century bring a consumer revolution? Was there a great divergence between East and West? Did the twentieth century see the triumph of global consumerism? Questions of consumption have become defining topics in all branches of history, from gender and labour history to political history and cultural studies. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption offers a timely overview of how our understanding of consumption in history has changed in the last generation, taking the reader from the ancient period to the twenty-first century. It includes chapters on Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America, brings together new perspectives, highlights cutting-edge areas of research, and offers a guide through the main historiographical developments. Contributions from leading historians examine the spaces of consumption, consumer politics, luxury and waste, nationalism and empire, the body, well-being, youth cultures, and fashion. The Handbook also showcases the different ways in which recent historians have approached the subject, from cultural and economic history to political history and technology studies, including areas where multidisciplinary approaches have been especially fruitful.

Health Professions Education

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030913319X
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Health Professions Education written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Institute of Medicine study Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) recommended that an interdisciplinary summit be held to further reform of health professions education in order to enhance quality and patient safety. Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality is the follow up to that summit, held in June 2002, where 150 participants across disciplines and occupations developed ideas about how to integrate a core set of competencies into health professions education. These core competencies include patient-centered care, interdisciplinary teams, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics. This book recommends a mix of approaches to health education improvement, including those related to oversight processes, the training environment, research, public reporting, and leadership. Educators, administrators, and health professionals can use this book to help achieve an approach to education that better prepares clinicians to meet both the needs of patients and the requirements of a changing health care system.