Ruth Horowitz

In the Public Interest: Medical Licensing and the Disciplinary Process

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Investigates the mechanisms that democratic societies have used to certify that those working as licensed doctors are properly trained and supervised as they deliver critical services to the public. It analyses the workings of the crucial public institutions charged with maintaining the safety and legitimacy of the U.S. medical profession and provides prescriptive measures, and addresses problems in need of reform.

Produktdetails

• Critical Issues in Health and
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Altersempfehlung: 18 bis 22 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9780813554266
• ISBN-10: 0813554268
• Artikelnr.: 36674490

Autorenporträt

RUTH HOROWITZ is a professor of sociology at New York University. She is the author of Honor and the American Dream: Culture and Identity in a Chicano Community (Rutgers University Press) and Teen Mothers: Citizens or Dependents?

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Public Member, Researcher, and Public Sociologist
2 How Licensure Became a Medical Institution
3 Public Participation
4 The State, the Media, and the Shaping of Public Opinion
5 Rhetorics of Law, Medicine, and Public Interest Shape Board Work
6 Medical and Legal Discourses in Investigatory Committees
7 Hearing and Sanction Deliberations
8 Democratic Deliberation and the Public Interest
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index