Professions and the Public Interest: Medical Power, Altruism and Alternative Medicine

by Mike Saks

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0415116686

ISBN13:9780415116688

Release Date:November 1994

Publisher:Routledge

Length:324 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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