Health Professions and the State in Europe (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Johnson, Terry; Saks, Mike; Larkin, Gerry

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Many professions today are in a state of transition, with changes being imposed on them by governments and other agencies. Focusing on this theme of change Health Professions and the State in Europe explains and illuminates the specific relationship between health professions and the state. The editors and contributors, all experts in the field, present an overview of the current situation in eight different countries in Europe, covering such topical issues as the impact on the health professions of market policies, performance and quality measures, and challenges to professional monopolies and expertise. With its international and comparative perspective, the book enhances our understanding of the interplay between health professions and the state in different national contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134844517
• Artikelnr.: 42710989

Autorenporträt

Terry Johnson, Gerry Larkin, Mike Saks

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors Introduction Part I: Professions and the State: Theoretical
Issues 1. Governmentality and the Institutionalization of Expertise 2.
Countervailing Powers: A Framework for Professions in Transition Part II:
Health Professions and the State in Britain 3. Historical Perspectives 4.
Restructuring Health and Welfare Professions in the UK 5. Shifting Spheres
of Opportunity 6. Doctors, Peer Review and Quality Assurance 7. The
Changing Response of the Medical Profession to Alternative Medicine in
Britain 8. The British General Medical Council Health Professions and the
State in Continental Europe 9. The Politics of the Spanish Medical
Profession 10. The Belgian Medical Profession since the 1980s 11. Midwifery
in the Netherlands 12. State Traditions and Medical Professionalization in
Scandinavia 13. Medical Uncertainty and Gender-Based Work in the Medical
Profession in the Nordic Countries