Reflections on health care consumerism: insights from feminism
- 1 September 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Health Expectations
- Vol. 2 (3) , 150-158
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1369-6513.1999.00043.x
Abstract
Health care consumerism is a movement concerned with patients’ interests in health care, crucially those that are repressed or partly repressed by dominant interest-holders. Like feminism, health care consumerism attracts dislike and confusion as well as enthusiasm. But just as the voicing of women’s repressed interests leads to their gradual acceptance by dominant interest-holders, so does the voicing of patients’ repressed interests.Keywords
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