Sweeping changes have made NHS governance a crucial & contested issue. This text makes sense of the new systems, describing & assessing the new governance arrangements & accountabilities. It examines how they are working in practice, reporting on how practitioners are responding to the difficulties & paradoxes that arise.
Sweeping changes have made NHS governance a crucial & contested issue. This text makes sense of the new systems, describing & assessing the new govern...
The new NHS is a very different organisation to the one set up 60 years ago. Two decades of reforms have introduced a market element, unprecedented transparency, patient choice, new incentives, devolved accountabilities and a host of new regulatory bodies. All these changes have made governance a crucial and contested issue in health care.
Governing the New NHS makes sense of the new systems and will enable anyone interested in healthcare governance to navigate their way confidently through the maze. It describes, assesses and critiques the new governance arrangements. It...
The new NHS is a very different organisation to the one set up 60 years ago. Two decades of reforms have introduced a market element, unprecedented...
Incorporates contributions from management and business writers in areas adjacent to human resource management, including strategy, innovation and organizational learning. Focusing on the interplay between theory and practice, this book is suitable for researchers and students studying human resource management and strategy.
Incorporates contributions from management and business writers in areas adjacent to human resource management, including strategy, innovation and org...
A revised and fully updated new edition of this best-selling introduction to the study of contemporary popular culture. The book presents an accessible introduction to the range of theories and methods which have been used to study contemporary popular culture. Doing this, it also provides a map of the development of cultural studies through discussion of its most influential approaches. Organised around a series of case studies, each chapter focuses on a different media form and presents a critical overview of the methodology for the actual study of popular culture. Individual chapters cover...
A revised and fully updated new edition of this best-selling introduction to the study of contemporary popular culture. The book presents an accessibl...
From Popular Culture to Everyday Life presents a critical exploration of the development of everyday life as an object of study in cultural analysis, wherein John Storey addresses the way in which everyday life is beginning to replace popular culture as a primary concept in cultural studies.
Storey presents a range of different ways of thinking theoretically about the everyday; from Freudian and Marxist approaches, to chapters exploring topics such as consumption, mediatization and phenomenological sociology. The book concludes, drawing from the previous nine chapters,...
From Popular Culture to Everyday Life presents a critical exploration of the development of everyday life as an object of study in cultura...
The Making of English Popular Culture provides an account of the making of popular culture in the nineteenth century.
While a form of what we might describe as popular culture existed before this period, John Storey has assembled a collection that demonstrates how what we now think of as popular culture first emerged as a result of the enormous changes that accompanied the industrial revolution. Particularly significant are the technological changes that made the production of new forms of culture possible and the concentration of people in urban areas that created significant audiences...
The Making of English Popular Culture provides an account of the making of popular culture in the nineteenth century.
