The concept of lifeworld as a tool in analysing health-care work: Exploring professionals resistance to governance through subjectivity, norms and experiential knowledge

Social Theory and Health

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 147-165

  Brown, Patrick ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Audit; clinical governance; gaming; Habermas; new public management

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955592796     PISSN: 14778211     EISSN: 1477822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/sth.2011.3     Document Type: Article

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