“paradoxing the dialectic”: The Impact of Patients’ Sexual Harassment in the Discursive Construction of Nurses’ Caregiving Roles

Management Communication Quarterly

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 416-450

  Atkinson, Joshua ^b   Dougherty, Debbie S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

contradictions; dialectical tensions; paradox; sexual harassment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990324245     PISSN: 08933189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0893318905280879     Document Type: Article

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