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Essays on professions [electronic resource]

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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.

Title Essays on professions [electronic resource] / Robert Dingwall.
Publisher Aldershot, England
Burlington, VT : Ashgate
Creation Date c2008
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-161) and index.
English
Content 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
Series Ashgate classics in sociology
Extent 1 online resource (187 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010712497605171
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