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.

Considering the discourses that come into play in organizational change, this 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.

The book engages healthcare trainees in a comprehensive and probing discussion of the communication demands that confront today's healthcare teams.