Professions and the Public Interest
Medical Power, Altruism and Alternative Medicine
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ISBN-13:
9780415018050
Veröffentl:
1994
Erscheinungsdatum:
24.11.1994
Seiten:
328
Autor:
Mike Saks
Gewicht:
562 g
Format:
216x140x22 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
The importance and influence of professions in public life has grown increasingly over the twentieth century but the question of whether they subordinate their own self-interests to the public interest has yet to be adequately researched within a major sociological perspective. In Professions and the Public Interest Mike Saks develops a theoretical and methodological framework for assessing professional groups in Western society. The empirical applicability of this framework is demonstrated with particular reference to a novel case study of the response of the medical profession to acupuncture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Professions and the Public Interest will be of great interest to all lecturers and students of social policy, sociology, and medical sociology as well as to professional groups and their members.
Introduction; Part 1 Sociology, professions and the public interest; Chapter 1 The sociology of professions and the professional altruism ideal; Chapter 2 The development of a viable conception of the public interest; Chapter 3 The role of professions; Part 2 An empirical application: the response of the medical profession to acupuncture in Great Britain; Chapter 4 Alternative medicine; Chapter 5 Potential explanations for the rejection of acupuncture in Britain; Chapter 6 Acupuncture and British medicine; Chapter 7 The medical reception of acupuncture in Britain;
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