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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Sociology of Medical Regulation
    sub title: An Introduction
  name:
    name part: Chamberlain, John Martyn.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 184 p. online resource.
  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.
  table of contents: Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Medical Governance in the Risky Age of the Surveillance Society -- Chapter 2: Biomedicine, Medicalization and Risk -- Chapter 3: Doctors, Patients, Managers and the State -- Chapter 4: Sociological Deconstructions I: Critiquing Medical Autonomy and Altruism -- Chapter 5: Sociological Deconstructions II: Governmentality and Restraification -- Chapter 6: Restratification and Revalidation: United Kingdom and International Perspectives -- Chapter 7: Restratification and the Hearing of Fitness to Practice Cases -- Chapter 8: Epilogue: Sociology, Medical Governance and Citizenship.
  note: by John Martyn Chamberlain.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Medical ethics
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, general
  subject:
    topic: History of Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics
  classification: HM401-1281
  classification: 301
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