Professions and the Public Interest - Medical Power, Altruism and Alternative Medicine (Paperback, New)

The importance and influence of professions in public life has grown increasingly over the twentieth century but the question of whether they subordinate their own self-interests to the public interest has yet to be adequately researched within a major sociological perspective. In Professions and the Public Interest Mike Saks develops a theoretical and methodolgical framework for assessing professional groups in Western society. The empirical applicability of this framework is demonstrated with particular reference to a novel case study of the response of the medical profession to acupuncture in the nineteenth and twentieth century.

Professions and the Public Interest will be of great interest to all lectures and students of social policy, sociology, and medical sociology as well as to professional groups and their members.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 1994
First published:	1995
Authors:	Mike Saks
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	328
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-11668-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social work > General
LSN:	0-415-11668-6
Barcode:	9780415116688

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