2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Dominant Discourses in Health and Welfare
Medicine, Law, Economics and New Public Management
Author: Karen Healy
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Log inSocial work has grown and has been shaped by discourses of the health and welfare organizations where social workers are often numerically in the minority and the position of social workers is contested and marginal. For more than three decades, health and welfare organizations have been the site of struggle as the discourses linked to the elite professions, particularly medicine and law, have been challenged by neoclassical economics and new public management (NPM) discourses.