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    Governing recovery: a discourse analysis of hospital stay length
    Heartfield, Marie ( 2002-12)
    This research examines hospital length of stay as a feature of contemporary health care reforms. The ideas of Michel Foucault on governmentality enable length of stay to be studied, not as numerical values of hospital use, but rather as one of the social and political processes through which certain concepts are made susceptible to measurement and part of practice. In this study length of stay is examined as a programmatic rationality, evident in the reengineering of the modern hospital. However, the focus of analysis is not the ‘effect’ of this reengineering, as seen in the substantial changes to hospital treatments and the shifting burden of responsibility for health and ill-health care to individuals and communities. Rather, analysis is directed at understanding how such rationalities make possible reengineering or shifts in the local contexts of hospital care practices. (For complete abstract open document)