Actors, patients and agency: a recent history

• Autores: David Armstrong
• Localización: Sociology of Health & Illness, ISSN-e 1467-9566, Vol. 36, Nº. 2, 2014, págs. 163-174
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Abstract This article examines the history of patients� behaviour since the middle of the 20th century. It describes a number of strategies that have served to encourage patients to exercise increasingly autonomous behaviour. The effect has been to instil a sense of agency in previously passive patients.