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Social movements in healthcare: learning for leaders

In: Research Handbook on Leadership in Healthcare

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  • Stella Christou

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This chapter provides a short historical overview of the most influential theories on social movements, contentious politics and collective action to date. In addition, it introduces the relatively understudied category of Health Social Movements, defined as those instances of (contentious) collective action in the name of health, care and wellbeing. The purpose of this chapter is to present this subfield of political sociology to leaders in the domain of healthcare, to highlight the relevance of healthcare activism in contemporary societies, medical and healthcare systems and to extract some of the lessons from those experiences of collective action in the name of health, healthcare and wellbeing.

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  • Stella Christou, 2023. "Social movements in healthcare: learning for leaders," Chapters, in: Research Handbook on Leadership in Healthcare, chapter 34, pages 665-685, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:20708_34
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