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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777013403321

Autore

Dingwall Robert

Titolo

Essays on professions [[electronic resource] /] / Robert Dingwall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aldershot, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2008

ISBN

1-315-58024-1

1-317-14161-X

1-317-14160-1

1-281-23845-7

9786611238452

0-7546-8942-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Collana

Ashgate classics in sociology

Disciplina

331.7/1

Soggetti

Professions - Sociological aspects

Law

Medicine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-161) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 The Legacy of Parsons and Hughes; Chapter 2 Accomplishing Profession; Chapter 3 'Atrocity Stories' and Professional Relationships; Chapter 4 'In the Beginning was the Work...' Reflections on the Genesis of Occupations; Chapter 5 'A Respectable Profession'? Sociological and Economic Perspectives on the Regulation of Professional Services; Chapter 6 Closing the Market: Licensure and English Pharmacy 1794-1868; Chapter 7 Herbert Spencer and the Professions: Occupational Ecology Reconsidered

Chapter 8 Professions and Social Order in a Global SocietyChapter 9 'After the Fall ...': Capitulating to the Routine in Professional Work; Chapter 10 In Memory of Eliot Freidson: Is "professional dominance" an obsolete concept?; Endnotes; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is a timely and comprehensive collection of essays on professions, mainly in the fields of law and medicine, by an established academic. For the first time these hard to find or out of print papers are available



in one place and are the culmination of the author's best work in the field.