The Logic of Care: Health and the Problem of Patient Choice

by Annemarie Mol

Book Overview

**Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2010**

What is good care? In this innovative and compelling book, Annemarie Mol argues that good care has little to do with 'patient choice' and, therefore, creating more opportunities for patient choice will not improve health care.

Although it is possible to treat people who seek professional help as customers or citizens, Mol argues that this undermines ways...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415453437
• ISBN13: 9780415453431
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.3"