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Medical Professionals and the Organization of Knowledge (Paperback): Eliot Freidson, Judith Lorber

Medical Professionals and the Organization of Knowledge (Paperback)

Eliot Freidson, Judith Lorber

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"Medical Professionals and the Organization of Knowledge" conveys how medical people shape and organize the knowledge, perception, and experience of illness, as well as the substance of illness behavior, its management, and treatment. It is now well established that the unique symbolic equipment of the human animal is intimately connected with the functioning of the body. Freidson and Lorber believe that the proper understanding of specifically human rather than generally "animal" illness requires careful and systematic study of the social meanings surrounding illness.

The content of social meanings varies from culture to culture and from one historical period to another. As important as the content of those social meanings, is the organization of groups who serve as carriers and, sometimes, creators. In the case of illness, a critical difference exists between those considered to be competent to diagnose and treat the sick and those excluded from this special privilege--a separation as old as the shaman or medicine-man. Such differences become solidified when the expert healer becomes a member of an organized, full-time occupation, sustained in monopoly over the work of diagnosis and treatment by the force of the state and invested with the authority to make official designation of the social meanings to be ascribed to physical states.

The medical profession in advanced nations is in a vise between professional needs and political demands. Its organization and its knowledge establish many of the conditions for being recognizably and legitimately ill, and the professional controls for many of the circumstances of treatment. It thus plays a central role in shaping the experience of being ill. With this fact of modern life in mind, this collection on the character of experts or professionals in general and of medicine as a profession in particular is uniquely fashioned.

Eliot Freidson was professor emeritus of sociology in the Graduate School of Arts and Science of New York University. He served on scientific advisory boards for the Social Security Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Center for Health Services Research.

"Judith Lorber" is a professor emerita of sociology at Brooklyn College and the City College of New York Graduate Center. She is author of "Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics, Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change," and "Gender and the Social Construction of Illness."

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Imprint: AldineTransaction
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2008
First published: July 2008
Authors: Eliot Freidson • Judith Lorber
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 978-0-202-36208-3
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General
Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General
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LSN: 0-202-36208-6
Barcode: 9780202362083

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