"It's like asking for a necktie when you don't have underwear": Discourses on patient rights in southern Karnataka, India

• Ngā kaituhi matua: Meena Putturaj (Author), Sara Van Belle (Author), Anja Krumeich (Author), Prashanth NS (Author), Nora Engel (Author)
• Hōputu: Pukapuka
• I whakaputaina: BMC, 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Ngā marau: article
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Abstract Background Ensuring patient rights is an extension of applying human rights principles to health care. A critical examination of how the notion of patient rights is perceived and enacted by various actors through critical discourse analysis (CDA) can help understand the impediments to its r...