Abstract
In this article we outline Burden of Treatment Theory, a new model of the relationship between sick people, their social networks, and health-care services. Health services face the challenge of growing populations with long-term and life-limiting conditions, they have responded to this by delegating to sick people and their networks routine work aimed at managing symptoms, and at retarding—and sometimes preventing—disease progression. This is the new proactive work of patient-hood for which patients are increasingly accountable: founded on ideas about self-care, self-empowerment, and self-actualization, and on new technologies and treatment modalities which can be shifted from the clinic to the community. These place new demands on sick people, which they may experience as burdens of treatment.
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