You will have chosen your own area to examine for this activity but the following is offered as an example:

In relation to health care we might ask:

• What is the aim of healthcare provided by the state?
• What should be the aim?
• Why is the health service structured in the way it is?
• Why are nurses the largest professional group within the health service but have traditionally lacked power?
• Who should decide how the health service is run?
• Who makes the key decisions in the health service?

Again you will have chosen your own perspective for this exercise but the following is offered as an example:

Feminism

• It can help us to understand the gendered nature of care that can impact both on the role of nurses and on the informal carers that nurses may support.
• It can alert us to the ways in which power is often exercised within the family and within wider society.
• It can encourage us to question existing structures both within healthcare and more widely and also to challenge their legitimacy.