Dependency, trust and choice? Examining agency and ‘forced options’ within secondary-healthcare contexts

Current Sociology

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 729-745

  Brown, Patrick R ^a   Meyer, Samantha B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Choice; dependence; structuration; trust; vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938603349     PISSN: 00113921     EISSN: 14617064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011392115590091     Document Type: Article

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