ISBN:
9789400748965
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XI, 184 p, digital)
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T.
Keywords:
Social sciences
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Medicine
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Medical ethics
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Social Sciences
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Social sciences
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Medicine
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Medical ethics
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Delivery of Health Care legislation & jurisprudence
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Ethics, Medical
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Sociology, Medical
Abstract:
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the complex issues surrounding the regulation of the medical profession. It offers up-to-date information on the current legislative framework and institutional arrangements surrounding the regulation in the United Kingdom. Well organized and written in an accessible way, it offers an insight into key sociological theories surrounding medical regulation. It gives a historically situated analysis of the contemporary relationship between medicine, the state and the public, and an overview of relevant social scientific research. Case studies highl
Abstract:
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the complex issues surrounding the regulation of the medical profession. It offers up-to-date information on the current legislative framework and institutional arrangements surrounding the regulation in the United Kingdom. Well organized and written in an accessible way, it offers an insight into key sociological theories surrounding medical regulation. It gives a historically situated analysis of the contemporary relationship between medicine, the state and the public, and an overview of relevant social scientific research. Case studies highlight the practical or applied circumstances in which issues can occur. Readers will gain insight into possible future directions for medical governance.
Description / Table of Contents:
The Sociology of Medical Regulation; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Medical Governance in the Risky Age of the Surveillance Society; Introduction; From Modernity to High Modernity; The Rise of the Risk Society; The Risk Society as the Surveillance Society; The Dispersal of Discipline; Resisting the Surveillance Assemblage; Medical Regulation in the Age of Risk; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References; Chapter 2: Biomedicine, Medicalisation and Risk; Introduction; The Enlightenment Promise; A Realist Endeavour; The Greco-Roman Humoral Tradition; The Birth of Biomedicine
Description / Table of Contents:
From the Laboratory to the Clinic and the Medical GazeThe Biomedical Model and the Postmodern Turn; Medicalisation; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References; Chapter 3: Doctors, Patients, Managers and the State; Introduction; From Bedside Medicine to Hospital Medicine; The 1858 Medical Act and the Golden Age of Medical Power; Challenging Medicine; The Shipman Case; The Donaldson Report; The 2008 Health and Social Care Act and Beyond; Medical Regulation and the Nature of Medical Expertise; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 4: Sociological Deconstructions I: Critiquing Medical Autonomy and AltruismIntroduction; Functionalism: Professionalism as Altruism; Critiquing Professional Power: The Neo-Weberian Viewpoint; Freidson and Social Closure; Larson and Medical Knowledge; The Dominance of the Social Closure Model; The Feminist Critique; The Neo-Marxist Critique; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References; Chapter 5: Sociological Deconstructions II: Governmentality and Restratification; Introduction; Governmentality and the Revival of Liberalism; The Natural Order of Liberal Governance
Description / Table of Contents:
The Enterprise Self and Neo-liberal GovernmentalityExpert Enclosures and Technologies of Performance and Agency; Critical Reflections on the Governmentality Perspective; The Proletarianisation and Deprofessionalisation Theses; The Restratification Thesis; Medicine and Managerial Corporate Rationalisers Revisited; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References; Chapter 6: Restratification and Revalidation: United Kingdom and International Perspectives; Introduction; Medical Professionalism Revisited: Maintaining Competence to Practise; Revalidation in the United Kingdom: A Developmental Process
Description / Table of Contents:
Restratification, Revalidation and the Health Select CommitteeAustralia; Canada; Finland; Netherlands; United States; Critical Reflections on the Restratification Thesis; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References; Chapter 7: Restratification and the Hearing of Fitness to Practice Cases; Introduction; The Medical Register and the Changing Medical Profession; Handling Complaints; From Triage to Investigation and Adjudication; Trends in Complaints by Source and Practitioner Characteristics; Trends in Fitness to Practice Hearing Activity
Description / Table of Contents:
Fitness to Practice Activity and the Transformation of Medical Autonomy
Note:
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DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-4896-5
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