Introduction: patient-centered health : who, what, and how? -- Patient-centered care or patient-centered health? -- Respecting and promoting patient autonomy in research, end-of-life care, and chronic illness care -- Escaping the autonomy vs objectivity trap by re-personalizing the clinical problem -- Health-related quality of life as a goal for clinical care -- Health as the capacity for action -- On the role of health behavior in 21st Century health -- Repersonalizing health behavior as therapeutic action : advancing from activated patient to autonomous patient -- Finding health between personal and disease processes -- Seeking the roots of health and action in biological autonomy -- Make the patient into the true customer for health care -- Patient-centered health is produced by patients.
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