[ 英文摘要 ]

Health rights movements have become a significant factor in contemporary civil society in Taiwan. While research suggests that health rights movements are part of the new social movement, how health rights movement organizations develop and interact with the state and the market deserve further analysis. This research uses the breast cancer patients’ movement as a case study to examine the impact of different resources, including state funding and donations from pharmaceutical companies, on health rights movement organizations. This study shows that government funding first provided resources for breast cancer patients’ support groups to institutionalize and expand into a nation-wide non-profit umbrella organization. However, when the government started to cut this budget and relegated the projects to subcontracting through NGOs, the breast cancer patients’ organization decided to withdraw from these governmental projects. In addition, pharmaceutical companies are more likely to support medical-doctor founded non-profit organizations and less likely to support a patients’ self-help organization. The breast cancer patients’ organization has thus learned to utilize moral, cultural, and social/organizational resources to maintain its advocacy roles and the functioning of its organization.