Power in the Primary Care Medical Encounter: Domination, Resistance and Alliances

Social Theory and Health

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 221-243

  Filc, Dani ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

doctor patient relationship; medical encounter; power

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249158467     PISSN: 14778211     EISSN: 1477822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.sth.8700072     Document Type: Article

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