Citizen Participation as Political Ritual: Towards a Sociological Theorizing of ‘Health Citizenship’

Sociology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 744-761

  Komporozos Athanasiou, Aris ^a,b   Fudge, Nina ^a   Adams, Mary ^a   McKevitt, Christopher ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

citizen participation; ethnography; health citizenship; patient and public involvement; ritual performance; ritual theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85051815491     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: 14698684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0038038516664683     Document Type: Article

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