1st Edition

Social Work and General Medical Practice Collaboration or Conflict?

By June Huntington Copyright 1981
208 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1981, Social Work and General Medical Practice aims to promote communication between social workers and general practitioners by providing an analysis of those perceptions and attitudes which the two professions bring to the experience of working together, and which may inhibit their collaboration. The author offers each group a sociological portrait not only of itself, but... Read more

Foreword by Margot Jeffreys 1. Introduction: A sociological perspective 2. Occupational structure 3. Occupational culture (I) 4. Occupational culture (II) 5. A sociology of inter-occupational relationships: collaboration, conflict, or indifference?

Biography

June Huntington

Review of the first publication:

‘Perhaps the most penetrating analysis of the reasons behind interprofessional conflict appears in this excellent study.’

— M.L. Glenn, Family Systems Medicine, 5 (1)