Gourdin, MaximilienJanne, PascalWalker, CaroleCaroleWalker2025-05-142025-05-142025-05-142017https://hdl.handle.net/2078.2/1422Over the last few decades, health and medicine have received much interest from the lay public in Western societies. In parallel, the use of technology in the health field has expanded under a huge variety of forms and citizens’ involvement in personal healthcare has been on the rise. In this context, patient empowerment has become an increasingly popular concept, whereby the autonomous and responsible patient takes on an active role in the management of his or her health. Research literature on the subject of e-health and its positive impact on patient empowerment has accumulated across several disciplines. While most studies have focused on specific groups of patients, the impact of the empowered e-patient on patient-physician dynamics remains relatively unknown. The aim of this dissertation in to shed light upon these shifting dynamics by examining physicians’ perspectives on patient Internet use more specifically. By confronting patients’ opinions to those of physicians’ and through comparison between medical specialties, this exploratory study using empirical evidence provides insight into the benefits and risks of e- health as well as guidelines for future research.Patient EmpowermentPatient-Physician DynamicsPatient Internet UseCyberchondriaE-health LiteracyE-healthIllusory EmpowermentPatient-Web-Physician Triangletext::thesis::master thesisthesis:8751