The Handbook provides an authoritative overview of current issues and debates in the field of health care management. It contains over twenty chapters from well known and eminent academic authors internationally, selected for their expertise and asked to provide a broad and critical overview of...

Introduction -- Section 1. Analysing contemporary policy -- Chapter 1. The UK health policy process: Integration, fragmentation or pluralisation? -- Chapter 2. Populist polices and the medical profession: A case study from the UK -- Chapter 3. Corpus linguistics for policy analysis: Exploring...

High-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) is used to treat some advanced malignancies. It is a traumatic procedure, with a high complication rate and significant mortality. ASCT patients and their carers draw on many sources of information as they seek to understand...

When groups are convened to discuss the making of policy, people are chosen to represent particular interests because they have relevant experience. Different stakeholders, however, may use differing discourses, and particular discourses may be privileged in particular contexts. This means that...

Narrative analysis is well established as a means of examining the subjective experience of those who suffer chronic illness and cancer. In a study of perceptions of the outcomes of treatment of cancer of the colon, we have been struck by the consistency with which patients record three...

Purpose: To enlarge the focus on international mentoring beyond traditional company-assigned expatriates, this conceptual paper examines important contexts and dynamics of intercultural mentoring involving traditional expatriates and host country nationals (HCNs), with both as mentors and...