Professional power and the need for health care
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Professional power and the need for health care
（Developments in nursing and health care, 19）
Ashgate, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-152)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This work is a critical ethnography of decision making with respect to the assessment of health care need in the UK health systems. Theories of need, justice, and rights are reviewed in relation to the structural changes that have occurred to the Health Service in recent years. To illustrate the arguments, a case study of planning services for kidney failure patients is used. The decisions of a group of professionals involved in an independent review of government services evaluates critically using particular theories of need and communicative action. The relationship between needs, as understood and defined by medical and managerial groups, and markets form the focus for a more general critique of the reformed UK health system.
Table of Contents
- Health care needs, justice and rights to health care
- health policy - a critical perspective
- assessing need and planning health services - the case of renal services
- professional power and the need for health care
- needs and the political economy of the health service.
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