PROFESSIONS AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST by Mike Saks ( 9780415116688 )

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Title:

PROFESSIONS AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST
MEDICAL POWER, ALTRUISM AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

By:

Mike Saks

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0415116686

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9780415116688

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

24 November, 1994

Pages:

328

Description:

Presents a new framework and methodology for researching and assessing professional groups in relation to the public interest.

Synopsis:

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.

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bibliography, appendices

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Imprint:

Routledge

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