The Logic of Care: Health and the problem of

Univ. of Twente, the Netherlands. Translated from the Dutch edition, De logica van het zorgen, Actieve patienten en de grenzen van het kiezen, c2006. Argues that good care has little to do with 'patient choice' and creating more opportunities for patient choice will not improve healthcare. For public policy makers. Hardcover, softcover available. DNLM: Quality of Health Care.

Two logics	p. 1
Cliches of the West	p. 2
Active patients	p. 6
The method	p. 8
The book	p. 11
Customer or patient?	p. 14
Product or process	p. 16
Target group or team member	p. 20
Dreams or support	p. 23
Hoping for health or living with disease	p. 26
Actors who let go	p. 27
The citizen and the body	p. 29
Control or attentiveness	p. 31
Tame or nourish	p. 34
Determined or alive	p. 37
Who is in charge or what to do	p. 40
Managing versus doctoring	p. 42
Informative facts or target values	p. 43
Means or modifiers	p. 46
Calculating or attuning	p. 50
Managing doctors or shared doctoting	p. 54
Individual and collective	p. 57
Pre-given individuals or careful individuation	p. 59
Adding equals or crafting categories	p. 62
Healthy behaviour or helpful conditions	p. 66
The hidden brave	p. 70
The good in practice	p. 73
Morality in action	p. 74
Active patients	p. 79
Improving health care	p. 83
Translations	p. 89
Notes	p. 98
Literature	p. 116
Index	p. 126
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