Research report
1 Oct 2002
ISBN:
0117030562

Should we change the way in which health professionals interact with patients in the UK? A new study makes the case for regarding patients as participants in decision-making.

Summary

In this monograph Professor Angela Coulter examines the changing nature of the clinician-patient relationship and recommends some tools to enable patient autonomy to develop in an appropriate way. Set in the wider context of health and societal trends, this is a fascinating study of the changing nature of medicine at the beginning of the 21st century.

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