Product Description: Identity Trouble assembles contributions from a variety of discourse fields to discuss the pressures on traditional understandings of identity. The focus is on failures and uncertainties in people's construction of their identities when faced change and the contributors raise critical questions about identity and how it may be reconfigured...read more

Product Description: This book will provide clinicians, clinical managers and corporate managers with a practical guide to managing clinical processes and managing change in health services. It also provides the theory behind the practice.

Product Description: This book presents an array of investigation in the area of hospital communication, including internists negotiating end-of-life issues, spinal clinicians addressing the organization of surgery, and laboratory scientists coping with the introduction of a new test ordering software...read more

Product Description: This book considers the discourses that come into play in organizational change. The book outlines the tensions that arise for people having to enact change, and analyzes the ways in which they position themselves in changing organizational environments...read more