Professions and the Public Interest : Medical Power, Altruism and Alternative Medicine
by
Mike Saks
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0415116686
ISBN-13
9780415116688
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 24th, 1994
Print length
324 Pages
Weight
454 grams
Product Classification:
Social & cultural historySocial classesMedical ethics & professional conduct
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Presents a new framework and methodology for researching and assessing professional groups in relation to the public interest.
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.
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.
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