Representativeness, legitimacy and power in public involvement in health-care managementTools Martin, Graham P. (2008) Representativeness, legitimacy and power in public involvement in health-care management. Social Science & Medicine, 67 (11). pp. 1757-1765. ISSN 0277-9536 Full text not available from this repository.
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.09.024
AbstractPublic participation in health-service management is an increasingly prominent policy internationally. Frequently, though, academic studies have found it marginalized by health professionals who, keen to retain control over decision-making, undermine the legitimacy of involved members of the public, in particular by questioning their representativeness. This paper examines this negotiation of representative legitimacy between staff and involved users by drawing on a qualitative study of service-user involvement in pilot cancer-genetics services recently introduced in England, using interviews, participant observation and documentary analysis. In contrast to the findings of much of the literature, health professionals identified some degree of representative legitimacy in the contributions made by users. However, the ways in which staff and users constructed representativeness diverged significantly. Where staff valued the identities of users as biomedical and lay subjects, users themselves described the legitimacy of their contribution in more expansive terms of knowledge and citizenship.
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