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028			_a: Brijwasi Book Distributors _b: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, delhi. _c: BW/00069 _d: 30/10/2024
082			_a362.1 MOL
100			_a Mol, Annemarie.
245			_aThe Logic of Care _b: Health and the Problem of Patient Choice. _c/ Annemarie Mol.
260			_aNew York _b: Routledge _c, 2008.
300			_aix, 144p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b3172
520			_aWhat 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 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 choices but is something that grows out of collaborative and continuing attempts to attune knowledge and technologies to diseased bodies and complex lives. Mol does not criticise the practices she encountered in her field work as messy or ad hoc, but makes explicit what it is that motivates them: an intriguing combination of adaptability and perseverance. The Logic of Care: Health and the problem of patient choice is crucial reading for all those interested in the theory and practice of care, including sociologists, anthropologists and health care professionals. It will also speak to policymakers and become a valuable source of inspiration for patient activists.
650			_aMedical care
650			_aPatient satisfaction
650			_aCivil rights
700			_aAnnemarie Mol
942			_cBOOK
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