edited by Jonathan Gabe, David Kelleher, and Gareth Williams.
New York :
Routledge,
1994.
xxix, 199 pages ;
22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Understanding medical dominance in the modern world / David Kelleher, Jonathan Gabe and Gareth Williams -- 1. From tribalism to corporatism: the managerial challenge to medical dominance / David J. Hunter -- 2. The challenge of nursing / Anne Witz -- 3. Litigation and the threat to medicine / Robert Dingwall -- 4. Television and medicine: medical dominance or trial by media? / Michael Bury and Jonathan Gabe -- 5. The alternatives to medicine / Mike Saks -- 6. Self-help groups and their relationship to medicine / David Kelleher -- 7. Lay knowledge and the privilege of experience / Gareth Williams and Jennie Popay -- 8. Changing medicine? Gender and the politics of health care / Lesley Doyal -- 9. The anti-vivisectionist movement and the science of medicine / Mary Ann Elston -- 10. Epilogue: the last days of Doctor Power / Gareth Williams, Jonathan Gabe and David Kelleher.
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Lively appraisal of current changes to the health service and their effects on health professionals. Also original debate on challenges both within medicine and beyond, from nurses, self-help groups, the media, and the women's movement.