Configuring Health Consumers

1. Health(y) Citizenship: Technology, Work and Narratives of Responsibility
Sally Wyatt, Roma Harris, Nadine Wathen

2. In Sickness and in Health: Public and Private Responsibility for Health Care from Bismarck to Obama
Leslie Bella

3. Power to the Patient? A Critical Examination of Patient Empowerment Discourses
Tiffany Veinot

4. Lay Knowledge: The Missing Middle of the Expertise Debates
Sarah Wilcox

5. The Rhetorical Work of Informed Choice in Midwifery: Situated Knowledges and the Negotiation of Health Care Decisions
Philippa Spoel

6. Empowerment, Compliance and the Ethical Subject in Dietetic Work
Jacqui Gingras, Lucy Aphramor

7. Disorder Construction as Lay Work: Examining the Relationship Between Sleep Paralysis Construction and Help-Seeking Behaviours
Corinne Weisgerber

8. Facilitating Patients’ Hope Work Through Relationship: A Critique of the Discourse of Autonomy
Pär Salander, Clare Moynihan

9. The Work of Clinical Communication in Cancer Care
Peter Salmon

10. Working for the Cure: Challenging Pink Ribbon Activism
Maya Goldenberg

11. Impatient on the Net: Exploring the Genres of Internet Use for Health
Maria Bakardjieva

12. Sourcing the Crowd for Health Experiences: Letting the People Speak or Obliging Voice Through Choice?
Samantha Adams

13. Working (IT) Out Together: Engaging the Community in E-Health Developments for Obesity Management
Flis Henwood, Leslie Carlin, Elizabeth S. Guy, Audrey M. Marshall, Helen Smith

14. Working to be Healthy: Empowering Consumers or Citizens?
Roma Harris, Nadine Wathen, Sally Wyatt

Keywords: Social Sciences, Social Policy, Medical Sociology, Sociology, general, Medicine/Public Health, general, Popular Science in Economics / Management, Popular Science in Medicine and Health