Protect the patient from whom? When patients contest governmentality and seek more expert guidance

Social Theory and Health

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 19-39

  Hoffmann Pii, Kathrine ^a   Villadsen, Kaspar ^a  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; ethnography; Foucault; governmentality; preventive health; resistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872200525     PISSN: 14778211     EISSN: 1477822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/sth.2012.19     Document Type: Article

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