Title: The politics of professional power: medicine in a changing health service
Abstract: 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 systems of health care. In
sociological terms, medicine, with law, was the paradigmatic
profession, a publicly mandated and state-backed monopolistic supplier
of a valued service, exercising autonomy in the workplace and
collegiate control over recruitment, training and the regulation of
members’ conduct (Freidson 1970; Johnson 1972). Moreover, in the
eyes of some sociologists, this dominant profession was imperialistic,
apparently ruthlessly intent on enlarging its sphere of influence through
the medicalizing of society (e.g. Zola 1972) as well as subordinating
other occupations in the health division of labour (Freidson 1970).
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-09-11
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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