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Published: 17th November 1994
ISBN: 9780415106313
Number Of Pages: 256
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The health professions are facing major changes in the international arena and are being compelled to re-examine their organizational and skill base. This book explores key issues relating to these challenges and to the relationship between health care and the state in a range of differing national contexts across the shifting socio-political map of Europe. The editors and contributors address central questions involved in understanding both the history and recent patterns of change and the radical dilemmas and new opportunities facing the health professions. "Health Professions and the State in Europe" is applicable to a wide range of national contexts and a number of health professions--from nursing to midwifery to medicine--presenting a complete overview of the current situation in international health care.
| Notes on contributors | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Governmentality and the institutionalization of expertise | p. 7 |
| Countervailing powers: a framework for professions in transition | p. 25 |
| State control and the health professions in the United Kingdom: historical perspectives | p. 45 |
| Restructuring health and welfare professions in the United Kingdom: the impact of internal markets on the medical, nursing and social work professions | p. 55 |
| Shifting spheres of opportunity: the professional powers of general practitioners within the British National Health Service | p. 75 |
| Doctors, peer review and quality assurance | p. 86 |
| The changing response of the medical profession to alternative medicine in Britain: a case of altruism or self-interest? | p. 103 |
| The British General Medical Council: from Empire to Europe | p. 116 |
| The politics of the Spanish medical profession: democratization and the construction of the national health system | p. 141 |
| The Belgian medical profession since the 1980s: dominance and decline? | p. 162 |
| Midwifery in the Netherlands: more than a semi-profession? | p. 178 |
| State traditions and medical professionalization in Scandinavia | p. 187 |
| The medical profession in the Nordic countries: medical uncertainty and gender-based work | p. 200 |
| Post-communist reform and the health professions: medicine and nursing in the Czech Republic | p. 213 |
| Author index | p. 228 |
| Subject index | p. 233 |
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ISBN: 9780415106313
ISBN-10: 0415106311
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 256
Published: 17th November 1994
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 24.13 x 15.24
x 2.54
Weight (kg): 0.45
Edition Number: 1
Earn 152 Qantas Points
on this Book
