Keywords
Citation
(2005), "New Politics of Medicine", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 18 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2005.06218dae.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2005, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
New Politics of Medicine
New Politics of Medicine
Brian SalterPalgrave Macmillan2004ISBN 0 3380 1121
Keywords: Healthcare consumers, Patient involvement, Healthcare politics
A new politics of medicine is emerging from the changing relationship between medicine, society and the state. It is characterised by informed health consumers, an interventionist state, and a mobilised medical profession. With the media now its constant companion, medicine has been abruptly politicised by a range of pressures. Yet the continuities of its re-energised institutions remain intact and with them the sustaining realities of medical power.
Contents include:
- •
Medicine, society and the state;
- •
The politics of the doctor-patient relationship;
- •
The illusion of patient power;
- •
Doctors and managers;
- •
The parallel world of medicine;
- •
The invasion of medical territory;
- •
Medicine and the private sector; and
- •
New politics of medicine.