Reflections on health care consumerism: insights from feminism.
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.
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Charlotte
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Chairman, CERES (Consumers for Ethics in Research), former Vice-Chairman York Health Services NHS Trust, Dalby Old Rectory, Terrington, York, UK.