Access to Care and Factors That Impact Access, Patients As Partners in Care and Changing Roles of Health Providers

Sociologists and other social scientists, and medical and other health-care researchers explore sociological dimensions of relations between health care and people. The overall themes are providers of care, patients as consumers of health-care services, and modifications and reforms in health-care systems. Among the topics are insider knowledge and male nurses, medical interpreting by bilingual staff whose primary role is not interpreting, emergency situations when older homebound women had fortuitous help and a typology of helpers who were involved, feminist centers negotiating medical authority in the 21st century and implications for feminist care and the US women's health movement, and privatization in Malaysia and its effects on the health-care system. There is no index. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)