'Health slips as the financial crisis grips': Tensions and variations in medical discourse

It is the aim of this paper to investigate processes of change in medical discourse provoked by globalisation, the global crisis and the pressures based on rapid and competitive publishing. It also aims to explore the extent to which, if any, medical discourse globally creates and appropriates corporate thinking. In order to carry out this research, a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach will be followed, drawing on Fairclough (2001, 2007).