Kelly Underman
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781479897780
- eISBN:
- 9781479836338
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479897780.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Science, Technology and Environment
This chapter examines how patient empowerment seeks to train medical students to cultivate behaviors, attitudes, and values through disciplinary work done on physicians’ and patients’ affects. ...
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This chapter examines how patient empowerment seeks to train medical students to cultivate behaviors, attitudes, and values through disciplinary work done on physicians’ and patients’ affects. Because of the pelvic exam’s fraught history of rendering patients as passive objects prior to the intervention of the Women’s Health Movement, this exam serves as an interesting example to tease out threads of patient empowerment and professional authority. Patient empowerment is conceptualized as a technology comprised of discourses, knowledges, and practices that constitute patients as “partners”: fully informed subjects who are responsible for and obligated to participate in the maintenance of their own health.Less
This chapter examines how patient empowerment seeks to train medical students to cultivate behaviors, attitudes, and values through disciplinary work done on physicians’ and patients’ affects. Because of the pelvic exam’s fraught history of rendering patients as passive objects prior to the intervention of the Women’s Health Movement, this exam serves as an interesting example to tease out threads of patient empowerment and professional authority. Patient empowerment is conceptualized as a technology comprised of discourses, knowledges, and practices that constitute patients as “partners”: fully informed subjects who are responsible for and obligated to participate in the maintenance of their own health.
Barbara Prainsack
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781479814879
- eISBN:
- 9781479856909
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479814879.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Health, Illness, and Medicine
In order to create a personalized medicine that foregrounds factors that are important to patients and enhances social solidarity we need to repoliticize understandings of patient participation and ...
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In order to create a personalized medicine that foregrounds factors that are important to patients and enhances social solidarity we need to repoliticize understandings of patient participation and empowerment. Drawing upon the arguments made in this book, this concluding chapter develops a typology of patient participation and empowerment. It discusses how they each type of participation and empowerment can contribute (or not) to thinking and acting a new understanding of personalized medicine into being.Less
In order to create a personalized medicine that foregrounds factors that are important to patients and enhances social solidarity we need to repoliticize understandings of patient participation and empowerment. Drawing upon the arguments made in this book, this concluding chapter develops a typology of patient participation and empowerment. It discusses how they each type of participation and empowerment can contribute (or not) to thinking and acting a new understanding of personalized medicine into being.
