Patients, Consumers and Civil Society

Introduction.
No longer a patient: The social construction of the medical consumer.
Direct to consumer responsibility: Medical neoliberalism in pharmaceutical advertising and drug development.
Making connections: Egg donation, the Internet, and the new reproductive technology marketplace.
Selling the ideal birth: Rationalization and re-enchantment in the marketing of maternity care.
Too Posh To Push? Comparative perspectives on maternal request caesarean sections in Canada, the US, the UK and Finland.
Self-help groups challenge health care systems in the US and UK.
From discovery to recovery and beyond: The role of voluntary health sector organizations in the lives of women with breast cancer.
The clubhouse model: Mental health consumer–provider partnerships for recovery.
Straight from the heart.
Speaking for stem cells: Biomedical activism and emerging forms of patienthood.
Forging a new commons: Self-help associations in Slovenia and Croatia.
Gendered networks and health care privatization.
List of Contributors.
Advances in medical sociology.
Patients, consumers and civil society.
Copyright page.