This unique book enhances our understanding of the links between professions, the state
and the market–and their implications for the public in terms of professional practice. In so …

Professionalism is an Anglo-American disease. Durkheim and others as standing over
against—Eliot Freidson, 1983 markets. By the 1970s, however, historical and …

What is happening to the professions? In both Europe and the United States there exists the
growing certainty that those occupations that established such high-status, independent and …

Historically, the early professionalization movements in medicine and the law appear as
organizational projects which aspire to monopolize income and opportunities in markets of …

The institutional and technical character of medical work has become so complex that it
threatens to make physicians an appendage to rather than master of their technology. This …

The study of the professions, as they are defined in the developed world, has been deeply
intertwined with institutional theory and topics central to institutional theory (legitimation …

During the 1960s and 1970s, one theme recurred in British and American writing in medical
sociology and health policy: that medical power was an entrenched feature of modern …

The healthcare professions have never been static in terms of their own disciplinary
boundaries, nor in their role or status in society. Healthcare provision has been defined by …

Over the past 30 years, sociologists have debated the state and future of the health
professions. While the theoretical discussion in the 1960s was characterized by a belief in …

Governments across the western world face new demands to achieve greater efficiency and
responsiveness in public services. The transformations are most radical and challenging in …