1st Edition
Professions and the Public Interest Medical Power, Altruism and Alternative Medicine
By Mike Saks
Copyright 1995
324 Pages
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Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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;
Biography
Mike Saks is Professor and Head of the School of Health and Life Sciences at De Montfort University, Leicester.
