Competition in the wild: Reconfiguring healthcare markets

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 765-792

  Zuiderent Jerak, Teun ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Healthcare markets; Interventionist STS; Michel Callon; Performativity of economics; Reconfiguration

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349731543     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312709104433     Document Type: Article

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