This article illustrates the role electronic support groups play in consumer-driven
medicalization. The analysis is based on an observational study of a year in the life of an …

The patient–doctor interaction has changed profoundly in the past decades. In reaction to
paternalistic communication patterns, health policy makers have advocated for patient …

Over the past 15 years, the use of specialised medical equipment by patients at home has
increased in most industrialised countries. Adopting a conceptual framework that brings …

Learn how to place communication and participation at the heart of evidence-based
healthcare The Knowledgeable Patient: Communication and Participation in Health sits at …

Abstract In the United States the medical relationship is asymmetrical. Doctors not only
control medical knowledge, they also have an institutionally based authority which allows …

The concept of 'medicalisation'has informed the sociology of health and illness for several
decades. Typically, it has been discussed with critical connotations, although some …

Telemedicine technologies have been presented as solutions to the challenges of equitable,
cost‐effective and efficient health service provision for over two decades. The ways in which …

THE POWER AND POTENTIAL OF Page 1 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM January 2006/Vol.
49, No. 1 107 Grace J. Johnson and Paul J. Ambrose Online communities deserve better than …

Steven Epstein experiential knowledge of illness possessed or cultivated by patient groups
or health movements? What sorts of challenges do these lay actors pose to the authority of …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Lay health care consumers' emergence as active
participants in online health care networks is a powerful new technological pattern that …