Self-help groups as sites of active citizenship: a qualitative study of the democratising role of self-help in the public sphere

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Self-help groups as sites of active citizenship: a qualitative study of the democratising role of self-help in the public sphere

Self-help groups in the United Kingdom continue to grow in number and address virtually every conceivable health condition, but they remain the subject of very little theoretical analysis. The literature to date has predominantly focused on their therapeutic effects on individual members. And yet th...

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Main Author:	Chaudhary, Sarah
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	Self-help group Habermas Social movement Collective identity Citizenship
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14525/

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