The Logic of Care Free

Author: Annemarie Mol
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0415453437
Category: Medical

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

**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. Download The Logic of Care medical books for free.
Although it is possible to treat people who seek professional help as customers or citizens, Mol argues that this undermines ways of thinking and acting crucial to health care. Illustrating the discussion with examples from diabetes clinics and diabetes self care, the book presents the 'logic of care' in a step by step contrast with the 'logic of choice'. She concludes that good care is not a matter of making well argued individual choic Get The Logic of Care our bestseller medical books.

The Logic of Care Free

Although it is possible to treat people who seek professional help as customers or citizens, Mol argues that this undermines ways of thinking and acting crucial to health care She concludes that good care is not a matter of making well argued individual choic

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