Robert Dingwall and Philip Lewis's renowned compilation of diverse chapters--written by internationally recognized theorists and empirical researchers into the sociology of the professions--was groundbreaking when first published in 1983 and has influenced scholars, practitioners, and professionals since. Not limited to one occupation or field, as are most such studies, this collection examines across traditional fields the idea and practice of professions and professionals. The 2016 hardcover edition features a substantive foreword by Professor Sida Liu of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He notes that this book "is a rare effort to fully compare the two classic cases of doctors and lawyers in the professions literature. The contributors of the book include a number of prominent authors on the professions in Britain and the United States. Until today, it remains a vitally important volume for scholars and students interested in various aspects of professional life." "Looking back," Liu adds, "one must be struck by the extent to which theorists of professions and empirical researchers on doctors and lawyers from both the UK and US fully engage with one another throughout the book." He concludes that re-emergence of "this excellent book three decades after its initial publication will reconfirm its status as a classic collection of essays on the professions." 'The Sociology of the Professions' brings together enduring work by some of the most influential writers on the sociology of the professions. It is a deliberate attempt to extend the theoretical basis of the specialty by a comparative approach, using data and interviews on medicine and law. Recognized advances in understanding the professions resulted from the work of medical sociologists on the division of labor in health care and on the relation between health services and society. Their foundation, though, appeared uncertain in the absence of comparable material on other sectors. At the same time, the sociology of law has tended to neglect the study of the profession in favor of the analysis of statutes and their effects. But law is not just what is written in legislation; it is people's work. Our understanding of the social organization of legal services is incomplete without that perspective. The contributors to this volume are recognized authorities from a variety of fields, from the UK and US. They include Dingwall and Lewis, as well as Paul Atkinson, Maureen Cain, John Eekelaar, Eliot Freidson, Marc Galanter, Gordon Horobin, Malcolm Johnson, Geoff Mungham, Topsy Murray, Alan Paterson, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, P.M. Strong, and Philip Thomas. Their studies fall into three categories: "Professions, Knowledge and Power," "Professional Work," and "Professional Careers." The volume retains a comprehensive bibliography in law, medicine, and beyond. Reviews of the original edition include: "Dingwall and Lewis have provided an exemplar of what an edited volume can be. Its comparativism, its span of European and American scholarship, its internal debates, its efforts to press into new theoretical terrain, all add to a refreshing and challenging collection. In fact, this volume would be a far better entree to the enduring questions of professions in modern societies than the limp alternatives too frequently served in its place." - Terence Halliday, Social Forces "This anthology provides an exceptionally literate assessment of past research and a coherent statement of the research agenda for the future." - Eve Spangler, Contemporary Sociology Part of the 'Classics of the Social Sciences' Series by Quid Pro Books, now in a library-quality hardcover edition."

The Sociology of the Professions: Lawyers, Doctors and Others

Politics & Social Sciences

Lewis, Philip

Dingwall, Robert

Social Sciences

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Essays on Professions

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

Routledge

An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing

This book combines the skills of a social historian, a sociologist and a graduate nurse in rethinking the history of modern nursing in the light of the latest scholarship. This book should be of interest to students in nursing, social administration, medical sociology and the history of nursing.

Webster, Charles

Rafferty, Anne Marie

Science & Math

<p>Combining the skills of a social historian, a sociologist and a graduate nurse, this book traces the history of nursing from 1800 and speculates on the future of nursing in the year 2000.</p>

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

This book is based on the most extensive investigation of child abuse and neglect ever carried out in Great Britain. The author followed the course of numerous cases from the first detection of ill-treatment to the resolution (or otherwise) of the problem.

The Protection of Children: State Intervention and Family Life

Eekelaar, John

Murray, Topsy

Blackwell Pub.

With critical observations on past approaches to this issue and the proposal of alternative lines of inquiry, this book is concerned with the attempts made by sociologists (and to a lesser extent, doctors) to account for patterns of social conduct that are observably associated with periods of illness. The author argues that medical sociologists have confused the proper realms of biological and sociological inquiry, and that it is this confusion that lies at the heart of the paucity of genuinely informative work in this field. The first chapter examines some of the influential explanations of the social consequences of illness that medical sociologists have put forward. The author analyzes representative selections from the body of literature on illness behaviour and on attempts to formulate accounts of illness within that tradition. This is followed in Chapter 2 by a look at previous attempts to break with this tradition and to develop accounts of illness as social action rather than as mere behaviour. In Chapter 3, Robert Dingwall attempts to formulate some more positive proposals. He reviews a number of suggestions concerning more adequate conceptualizations of illness. He then seeks to develop from them an account of illness based on the study of every-day life. These suggestions are illustrated in Chapter 5 by a re-working of empirical accounts of psychoactive drugs, poliomyelitis, myocardial infarction and childbirth. In the final chapter he sets out a methodological programme by which the questions raised in the book might be further investigated.

Aspects of Illness (Cardiff Papers in Qualitative Research)

Sociology

Ashgate Pub Ltd

Over the past 30 years Robert Dingwall has published an influential series of articles on the professions, especially law and medicine. This represents a substantial and coherent body of work in an important sub-discipline of sociology. This volume assembles the best of these writings in one single accessible place. The ten essays are republished in their original form, each bearing the traces of the time and place it was written. In sum, they provide a fascinating account of an academic journey. They are introduced with a foreword from the author, who places the work in context and offers some thoughts about how the work might be used by scholars in developing the field, to evaluate, for example, the effects of the New Labour period on professional autonomy. The essays will be indispensable to sociologists with a general interest in the professions and to scholars of law, medicine and business.

Essays on Professions (Ashgate Classics in Sociology)

Aspects of illness

Martin Robertson

In recent years the study of nursing history in Britain has been transformed by the application of concepts and methods from the social sciences to original sources. The myths and legends which have grown up through a century of anecdotal writing have been chipped away to reveal the complex story of an occupation shaped and reshaped by social and technological change. Most of the work has been scattered in monographs, journals and edited collections.  The skills of a social historian, a sociologist and a graduate nurse have been brought together to rethink the history of modern nursing in the light of the latest scholarship. The account starts by looking at the type of nursing care available in 1800. This was usually provided by the sick person's family or household servants. It traces the interdependent growth of general nursing and the modern hospital and examines the separate origins and eventual integration of mental nursing, district nursing, health visiting and midwifery. It concludes with reflections on the prospects for nursing in the year 2000.

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