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Medical Dominance: The Division of Labour in Australian Health Care Tapa blanda - 2020

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Author: Evan Willis
ISBN: 9780043600702

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Título Medical Dominance: The Division of Labour in Australian Health Care
Autor Evan Willis
Encuadernación Tapa blanda
Páginas 256
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Routledge, Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
Fecha de publicación 2020-09-04
ISBN 9780043600702 / 0043600700
Peso 0.69 libras (0.31 kg)
Dimensiones 8.27 x 5.83 x 0.54 pulgadas (21.01 x 14.81 x 1.37 cm)

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Evan Willis has written widely in the field of medicine, health care and society, and his study will interest not only sociologists concerned with health, illness and the labour process and practitioners in the various health professions, but it will provide a rich source of material for social historians. Medical Dominance was a winner of the Jean Martin Award for the Best Australasian Thesis in Social Theory and Research over a two year period.

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Medical Dominance

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ISBN 10 / ISBN 13

9780043600702 / 0043600700

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New. This new, revised and updated edition of "Medical Dominance" provides an account of the medical profession's successful domination of a wide range of health-care services. Evan Willis delves into the past to explain the existing division of labour and health care, the rise of the medical profession to a position of economic power within the health system, and its defence of that dominant position. He also considers the related question of the policy implications of medical dominance. The defence by doctors of their position of power is highlighted by the author's research into demarcation struggles between medicine and other health occupations, in particular midwifery, optometry and chiropractic. Conventional explanations of medical dominance are challenged by the argument that the role of developments of medical knowledge, and in technology itself, have been overstated. Greater account must also be taken of the social relations and struggles which developed for control… Leer más