postmodern patient

English

Etymology

Coined by the historian Edward Shorter in Beside Manners, pages 211-40.[1]

Noun

postmodern patient (plural postmodern patients)

  1. A patient who ultimately trusts their own judgement of their health before a doctor's.

References

  1. ^ Dowbiggin, Ian (2003) A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 113, 209
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