Professions and the Public Interest

Medical Power, Altruism and Alternative Medicine
1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-0-415-01805-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 562 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saks, Mike

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Komplementäre Medizin, Asiatische Medizin (TCM), Heilpraktiker
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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;

Über Autor(innen)

Mike Saks is Professor and Head of the School of Health and Life Sciences at De Montfort University, Leicester.