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- Title
PATIËNTEN IN DE POLITIEKE ARENA.
- Authors
Duyvendak, Jan Willem
- Abstract
Dutch patients' organisations are continually invited by national and local government, health insurers, and health providers to participate in consultations on all sorts of aspects of health care. In part because of this, The Netherlands has a very strong - and heavily subsidized - patients' movement, that regularly succeeds in making it- self heard. But who are these participating patients? What made them cross the bridge from meeting with fellow sufferers to representing an interest? And what happens to the patient's identity upon entering the political arena? It seems that, more and more often, the patient with a say tends to reject the patient's identity: he or she wants to participate as a full citizen. Our study shows that, while citizenship seems to provide an adequate identity within the political arena, from the patients' perspective it also poses the threat of great losses. In historical terms, citizenship has always been defined in opposition to embodiment. Citizenship homogenizes exactly at that point, where patients have specific needs and wishes.
- Subjects
HAMBURGERS; SANDWICHES; CHEESEBURGERS; MEAT; BEEF; VEAL; COOKING; VARIETY meats
- Publication
Sociologie, 2006, Vol 2, Issue 2, p178
- ISSN
1574-3314
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1347/sogi.2.2.178