THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE MANAGER, ENGINEER AND FATHER? A DECONSTRUCTION

摘要

This paper presents the findings of deconstructing a short extract from a report written by a National Health Service Trust chief executive. Changes in National Health Service management since the early 1980s are briefly discussed. This is followed by a theoretical discussion of deconstruction and metaphorization. The text is analysed focusing on the `binary opposites' reason and emotion. It is argued that reason is given hierarchical pre-eminence and that emotion is hidden or marginalized but that both concepts are central in order to arrive at an understanding of the text.