LEADER 04575nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910815231803321 005 20211009000135.0 010 $a0-8135-5428-4 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813554280 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060389 035 $a(EBL)1210879 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000830874 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11463872 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000830874 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10838904 035 $a(PQKB)10286531 035 $a(OCoLC)830022784 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18902 035 $a(DE-B1597)530181 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813554280 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1210879 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10718797 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL496364 035 $a(OCoLC)851315766 035 $a(OCoLC)1163878035 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1210879 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060389 100 $a20120203d2013 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIn the public interest$b[electronic resource] $emedical licensing and the disciplinary process /$fRuth Horowitz 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (278 p.) 225 0 $aCritical Issues in Health and Medicine 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8135-5427-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 229-246) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction: Medical Boards and the Public Interest --$tChapter 1. Public Member, Researcher, and Public Sociologist: The Genesis of a Project --$tChapter 2. How Licensure Became a Medical Institution --$tChapter 3. Public Participation: The Federal Bureaucracy Starts a Public Dialogue --$tChapter 4. The State, the Media, and the Shaping of Public Opinion --$tChapter 5. Rhetorics of Law, Medicine, and Public Interest Shape Board Work --$tChapter 6. Medical and Legal Discourses in Investigatory Committees --$tChapter 7. Hearing and Sanction Deliberations: Transparency and Fact Construction Issues --$tChapter 8. Democratic Deliberation and the Public Interest --$tConclusion: An Exercise in Democratic Governance --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aHow do we know when physicians practice medicine safely? Can we trust doctors to discipline their own? What is a proper role of experts in a democracy? In the Public Interest raises these provocative questions, using medical licensing and discipline to advocate for a needed overhaul of how we decide public good in a society dominated by private interest groups. Throughout the twentieth century, American physicians built a powerful profession, but their drive toward professional autonomy has made outside observers increasingly concerned about physicians? ability to separate their own interests from those of the general public. Ruth Horowitz traces the history of medical licensure and the mechanisms that democratic societies have developed to certify doctors to deliver critical services. Combining her skills as a public member of medical licensing boards and as an ethnographer, Horowitz illuminates the workings of the crucial public institutions charged with maintaining public safety. She demonstrates the complex agendas different actors bring to board deliberations, the variations in the board authority across the country, the unevenly distributed institutional resources available to board members, and the difficulties non-physician members face as they struggle to balance interests of the parties involved. In the Public Interest suggests new procedures, resource allocation, and educational initiatives to increase physician oversight. Horowitz makes the case for regulations modeled after deliberative democracy that promise to open debates to the general public and allow public members to take a more active part in the decision-making process that affects vital community interests. 410 0$aCritical issues in health and medicine. 606 $aPhysicians$xLicenses$zUnited States 606 $aClinical competence$zUnited States 606 $aMedical policy$zUnited States 615 0$aPhysicians$xLicenses 615 0$aClinical competence 615 0$aMedical policy 676 $a362.1068 700 $aHorowitz$b Ruth$f1947-$01717540 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815231803321 996 $aIn the public interest$94113874 997 $aUNINA