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Subject(s)

• Professions—Sociological aspects [Browse]
• Law [Browse]
• Medicine [Browse]

Series

Ashgate classics in sociology. [More in this series]

Summary note

This is a timely and comprehensive collection of essays on professions, mainly in the fields of law and medicine, by an established academic. For the first time these hard to find or out of print papers are available in one place and are the culmination of the author's best work in the field.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-161) and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 The Legacy of Parsons and Hughes; Chapter 2 Accomplishing Profession; Chapter 3 'Atrocity Stories' and Professional Relationships; Chapter 4 'In the Beginning was the Work...' Reflections on the Genesis of Occupations; Chapter 5 'A Respectable Profession'? Sociological and Economic Perspectives on the Regulation of Professional Services; Chapter 6 Closing the Market: Licensure and English Pharmacy 1794-1868; Chapter 7 Herbert Spencer and the Professions: Occupational Ecology Reconsidered
• Chapter 8 Professions and Social Order in a Global SocietyChapter 9 'After the Fall ...': Capitulating to the Routine in Professional Work; Chapter 10 In Memory of Eliot Freidson: Is "professional dominance" an obsolete concept?; Endnotes; References; Author Index; Subject Index

ISBN

• 1-315-58024-1
• 1-317-14161-X
• 1-317-14160-1
• 1-281-23845-7
• 9786611238452
• 0-7546-8942-5

OCLC

463187194

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