Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/Ob9yRvg Professions and the Public Interest Medical Power, Altruism and Alternative Medicine By: Mike Saks Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415018050, 0415018056 eText ISBN: 9781134978564, 1134978561 Edition: 1st Pages: 328 Copyright year: 1994 Format: EPUB Available from $ 27.18 USD SKU 9781134978564R90 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 methodological 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 centuries. Professions and the Public Interest will be of great interest to all lecturers and students of social policy, sociology, and medical sociology as well as to professional groups and their members. Additional ISBNs 9780203991404, 9786610169047, 9781280169045, 9781134978571, 9781134978564, 9781134978526, 0203991400, 6610169047, 1280169044, 113497857X, 1134978561, 1134978529, 9780415018050, 9780415116688, 0415018056, 0415116686
