Adaptive regulation or governmentality: patient safety and the changing regulation of medicine.

Justin Waring

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Adaptive regulation or governmentality: patient safety and the changing regulation of medicine.

August 26, 2011

Waring J. Sociol Health Illn. 2007;29(2):163-79.

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The author conducted an ethnographic study at one British hospital to investigate how policies related to the British National Health Service patient safety agenda affect regulatory change.

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