"The Vital Connection": A rhetoric on equality

Personnel Review

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Hamilton, Peter M ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Equal opportunities; National Health Service; Rhetoric; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242370118     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480310498675     Document Type: Review

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