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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9780203991404, 9786610169047, 9781280169045, 9781134978571, 9781134978564, 9781134978526, 0203991400, 6610169047, 1280169044, 113497857X, 1134978561, 1134978529, 9780415018050, 9780415116688, 0415018056, 0415116686
Professions and the Public Interest Ebook
Medical Power, Altruism and Alternative Medicine
By: Mike Saks
Publisher:
Routledge
Print ISBN: 9780415018050, 0415018056
eText ISBN: 9781134978564, 1134978561
Edition: 1st
Pages: 328
Copyright year: 1994
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