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Informationen zum Autor RUTH HOROWITZ is a professor of sociology at New York University. She is the author of Honor and the American Dream: Culture and Identity in a Chicano Community (Rutgers University Press) and Teen Mothers: Citizens or Dependents? Klappentext Investigates the mechanisms that democratic societies have used to certify that those working as licensed doctors are properly trained and supervised as they deliver critical services to the public. It analyses the workings of the crucial public institutions charged with maintaining the safety and legitimacy of the U.S. medical profession and provides prescriptive measures, and addresses problems in need of reform. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1 Public Member, Researcher, and Public Sociologist2 How Licensure Became a Medical Institution3 Public Participation4 The State, the Media, and the Shaping of Public Opinion5 Rhetorics of Law, Medicine, and Public Interest Shape Board Work6 Medical and Legal Discourses in Investigatory Committees7 Hearing and Sanction Deliberations8 Democratic Deliberation and the Public InterestConclusionNotesReferencesIndex
