**Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book
Prize 2010** What is good care? In this innovative and compelling
book, Annemarie Mol argues that good care has little to do with
'patient choice' and, therefore, creating more opportunities for
patient choice will not improve health care. Although it is
possible to treat people who seek professional help as customers or
citizens, Mol argues that this undermines ways of thinking and
acting crucial to health care. Illustrating the discussion with
examples from diabetes clinics and diabetes self care, the book
presents the 'logic of care' in a step by step contrast with the
'logic of choice'. She concludes that good care is not a matter of
making well argued individual choices but is something that grows
out of collaborative and continuing attempts to attune knowledge
and technologies to diseased bodies and complex lives. Mol does not
criticise the practices she encountered in her field work as messy
or ad hoc, but makes explicit what it is that motivates them: an
intriguing combination of adaptability and perseverance. The Logic
of Care: Health and the problem of patient choice is crucial
reading for all those interested in the theory and practice of
care, including sociologists, anthropologists and health care
professionals. It will also speak to policymakers and become a
valuable source of inspiration for patient activists.
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