Titlebook: Configuring Health Consumers; Health Work and the Roma Harris,Nadine Wathen,Sally Wyatt Book 2010 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmil

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Sourcing the Crowd for Health Experiences: , the People Speak or , Voice Through Choice?In 2008, EURIM, a UK-based group that ‘brings together politicians, officials and industry to . . . support of the creation of a globally competitive, socially inclusive and democratically accountable information society’ (EURIM, 2009) released a report entitled, ‘How to Achieve Citizen-Centric Service Delivery: Let the People Speak’.

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In Sickness and in Health: Public and Private Responsibility for Health Care from Bismarck to ObamaIn recent decades, however, health care has become increasingly marketised and ‘health’ is again being reconfigured as a personal rather than a collective responsibility. This chapter traces the history of public health care from its origins to these twenty-first century (re)configurations.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/b138446personal responsibility for their own health. Strategies to encourage members of the public to lessen their reliance on traditional forms of health care are often entangled with the introduction of new technologies that are intended to facilitate better access to health information and enable opport

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Transformation follows strategyIn recent decades, however, health care has become increasingly marketised and ‘health’ is again being reconfigured as a personal rather than a collective responsibility. This chapter traces the history of public health care from its origins to these twenty-first century (re)configurations.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/b138446g the role of ‘consumers’ (Decter, 2000; UK Department of Health, 2006a). The availability of more and better information, especially from the internet, is said to diminish knowledge asymmetry between physicians and patients, thus equalising power in their interactions (see, for example, Hardey, 200

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https://doi.org/10.1007/b138446r the acquisition and development of specialised technical knowledge, has traditionally been seen as one of the foundations of professional authority. The concept of lay expertise has been used both narrowly, to refer to lay people’s active participation in the development of scientific and medical