The Changing medical profession : an international perspective /
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1993. |
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| Description: | 261 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1681902 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Section 1. Theoretical and Conceptual Overview
- 1. The Professional Dominance, Deprofessionalization, Proletarianization and Corporation Perspectives: An Overview and Synthesis
- 2. The Medical Profession and the State
- 3. Professions and the Law
- 4. How Dominant are the Professions?
- Section 2. Cross-National Case Studies
- 5. Countervailing Power: The Changing Character of the Medical Profession in the United States
- 6. Continuity in Change: Medical Dominance in the United Kingdom
- 7. Professional Powers in Decline: Medicine in a Changing Canada
- 8. The Medical Profession in Australia
- 9. Struggling for Control: The State and the Medical Profession in New Zealand
- 10. The State and the Medical Profession in France
- 11. The Power of Organized Medicine in Greece
- 12. The Medical Profession in the Nordic Countries
- 13. The Physician in the Commonwealth of Independent States: The Difficult Passage from Beaurocrat to Professional
- 14. The Medical Profession in Czechoslovakia: Legacies of State Socialism, Prospects for the Capitalist Future
- 15. Physicians in China: Assessing the Impact of Ideology and Organization
- Section 3. Discussion
- 16. Some Problematic Aspects of Medicine's Changing Status
- 17. National Variations on International Trends
- 18. Conclusion: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Dynamics of Medicine as a Profession
- References
- Contributors
- Index
