This book is perfect for our newly developed Patient Advocacy course as it provides a systematic overview of an emerging field. The book is deliberately designed to cover theory and practice, to inform readers of economic and social issues. The book seeks to inform students about the multifaceted nature of patient advocacy and seeks to educate readers about the social movement nature of the field and explore the possibilities for the patient advocacy taking root as an academic discipline. This book is critical to understanding how changes in the healthcare system come about and how important individuals are to this process.

--Lorna Lueker Zukas, Department of Social Sciences, National University