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. 1999 Sep;2(3):150-158.
doi: 10.1046/j.1369-6513.1999.00043.x.

Reflections on health care consumerism: insights from feminism

Charlotte Williamson  1
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Reflections on health care consumerism: insights from feminism

Charlotte Williamson. Health Expect. 1999 Sep.

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.

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