Robert Dingwall

Essays on Professions

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a timely and comprehensive collection of essays on professions, mainly in the fields of law and medicine, by an established academic. For the first time these hard to find or out of print papers are available in one place and are the culmination of the author's best work in the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780754646143
• ISBN-10: 0754646149
• Artikelnr.: 41240293

Autorenporträt

Robert Dingwall is Professor of Sociology and Director of IGBiS at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has edited/authored many books including co-authoring Qualitative Methods and Health Policy Research (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Series editor's preface
Foreword
The legacy of Parsons and Hughes
Accomplishing profession
'Atrocity stories' and professional relationships
'In the beginning was the work...': reflections on the genesis of occupations
A respectable profession? Sociological and economic perspectives on the regulation of professional services
Closing the market: licensure and English pharmacy, 1794-1868
Herbert Spencer and the professions: occupational ecology reconsidered
Professions and social order in a global society
After the Fall...: capitulating to the routine in professional work
In memory of Eliot Freidson: is 'professional dominance' an obsolete concept?
Endnotes
Bibliography
Indexes.