Policy making through a rhetorical lens: 'It's all just rhetoric'

Evidence, Policy and Practice: Critical Perspectives in Health and Social Care

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 49-69

  Russell, Jill ^a   Greenhalgh, Trisha ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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