Analyses the role of European patients’ organizations in the process of Europeanization of healthcare policies by exploring the types of organizations constituted by European patients’ organizations and the form of activism they develop.

The article documents and analyzes patients organizations- and groups of activists’ “evidence-based activismâ€, and the compound dynamic interplay between politics of illness and politics of knowledge it entails in the four condition areas studied: ADHD, Alzheimer, rare diseases...