1st Edition

The Rise of the Medical Profession A Study of Collective Social Mobility

292 Pages

by Routledge

292 Pages

by Routledge

292 Pages

by Routledge

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Originally published in 1976 The Rise of the Medical Profession combines a sociological and historical approach to the rise of the medical profession in England. Sociologically it offers a theoretical framework which for the first time links the study of social mobility and professionalism with the theory of stratification. Historically, it examines the movement which led to the unification of... Read more

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I

1. Social Mobility and Class Structure – The Orthodox Approaches

2. Professionalism and Social Class – I

3. Professionalism and Social Class – II

4. Power, Uncertainty and the Formation of Social Structure

5. Collective Social Mobility and Social Structure

Part II

6. From Apothecary to General Practitioner: A Successful Struggle for Upward Assimilation and Occupational Closure, 1790-1858

7. Professional Consolidation and Status, 1858-1911

8. Sexual Divisions and the Medical Occupations