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Governing humanity.

Full Abstract

In the United Kingdom, clinical governance has become a master narrative for health care over the last decade. While many see this political imperative as embodying both enlightening and humanistic goals, I argue that it has also become an apparatus for resuscitating a hypermodernist worldview which further conceals the political drivers of health care delivery. While resistance to clinical governance seems futile, insistence on the inclusion of historical analysis in understanding modern health care delivery may be profitable. Drawing from selected dramatic texts by Henrik Ibsen, an historical moment of clinical governance may be analysed showing the complex interplay of the personal, social, empirical and ethical dimensions of health care delivery.

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Author information

First Name	LastName	Initials
Stephen	Wallace	S

Affiliation: School of Health & Social Care, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth BH1 3LT, Dorset, UK. stephen.wallace@plymouth.ac.uk

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Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: The Journal of medical humanities (J Med Humanit).

Reference: 2008-Mar; vol 29 (issue 1) : pp 27-32

Language: eng

PMID: 18058002 (status: MEDLINE) (last retrieval date: 4/4/2008)

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Great Britain Health Facilities - organization & administration

Humanities Humans

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