Mike Saks

Professions and the Public Interest

Medical Power, Altruism and Alternative Medicine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780415018050
• ISBN-10: 0415018056
• Artikelnr.: 21301964

Autorenporträt

Mike Saks is Professor and Head of the School of Health and Life Sciences at De Montfort University, Leicester.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1 Sociology, professions and the public interest
Chapter 1 The sociology of professions and the professional altruism ideal
Chapter 2 The development of a viable conception of the public interest
Chapter 3 The role of professions
Part 2 An empirical application: the response of the medical profession to acupuncture in Great Britain
Chapter 4 Alternative medicine
Chapter 5 Potential explanations for the rejection of acupuncture in Britain
Chapter 6 Acupuncture and British medicine
Chapter 7 The medical reception of acupuncture in Britain