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Actors, patients and agency: a recent history
Author(s) -
Armstrong David
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
sociology of health and illness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1467-9566
pISSN - 0141-9889
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9566.12100
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , sense of agency , sociology , psychology , medicine , political science , history , social psychology , social science
This article examines the history of patients’ behaviour since the middle of the 20 th century. It describes a number of strategies that have served to encourage patients to exercise increasingly autonomous behaviour. The effect has been to instil a sense of agency in previously passive patients.
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