BACKGROUND Amidst diverging discourses describing chronic non-communicable disease (NCD) and healthcare access, the hermeneutical tradition within sociology, particularly as exemplified in the work of Jurgen Habermas, provides a starting point for exploring and interpreting the experiences of chronic illness and healthcare access. In this study, we aimed to understand how women living with NCDs...

1 See, for example, J. Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action. Volume 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society, trans. T. McCarthy (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1987 [1981]), hereafter TCA I, pp. xli and xliv. See also J. Habermas, On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction: Preliminary Studies in the Theory of Communicative Action, trans. B. Fultner (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001 [1984]), p...

Article history: Received 9 June 2010 Received in revised form 7 June 2011 Accepted 7 June 2011 Available online 1 July 2011 Habermas' critical social theory has proven to be an important and useful lens in information systems research, especially in understanding the communicative potential of information systems and in conceiving alternative approaches to information systems development. As c...

This article explores the idea of the democratic public sphere, and it is grounded in the work of Jurgen Habermas. Libraries help make possible the democratic public sphere ideal in the form of rational organization of human cultural production and they embody an essential element of democracy: a place where the ideal of unfettered communication and investigation exists in rudimentary form, hos...

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