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

List of contents

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 9. Doctors and the State: From National Health Insurance to National Health Service, 1911-1948 10. Doctors in the National Health Service, 1948-1975 Part III 11. Concluding Summary and Some Images of the Future Bibliography Index

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Noel Parry, José Parry

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jose Parry, José Parry, Noel Parry, Noel Parry Parry, Parry Noel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780367001759
• ISBN: 978-0-367-00175-9
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: History of Medicine; Routledge Library Editions: History of Medicine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; HISTORY / General, Social Mobility, History of Medicine, Medical profession