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Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients Into Consumers

Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients Into Consumers

Tomes, Nancy

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Series: Studies in Social Medicine

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ISBN10: 1469622777
ISBN13: 9781469622774
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jan 11 2016
Pages: 560
Weight: 2.05
Height: 1.70 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular -- and largely unexamined -- idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explores the consequences of the consumer economy and American medicine having come of age at exactly the same time. Tracing the robust development of advertising, marketing, and public relations within the medical profession and the vast realm we now think of as health care, Tomes considers what it means to be a good patient. As she shows, this history of the coevolution of medicine and consumer culture tells us much about our current predicament over health care in the United States. Understanding where the shopping model came from, why it was so long resisted in medicine, and why it finally triumphed in the late twentieth century helps explain why, despite striking changes that seem to empower patients, so many Americans remain unhappy and confused about their status as patients today.

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