Professional Identities in the NHS: Existential Perspectives
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https://doi.org/10.65828/7fwppn08Abstract
This paper attempts to consider the experience of working in a manner strongly influenced by the existential-phenomenological paradigm. It does so by describing a particular setting, by presenting three personal accounts of working in this area and finally exploring the relationship between the setting, values and practices of the three authors.
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