This unique book enhances our understanding of the links between professions, the state and the market – and their implications for the public in terms of professional practice. In so doing, the book
The Second Edition of Researching Health covers everything that a student or new researcher will need when starting to conduct their own research in a range of healthcare settings. The chapters guide
In this eagerly-anticipated new text, a range of internationally-renowned experts draw on their extensive experience to provide a practical and accessible guide to the wide span of methods used in hea
This collection of 14 articles provides research from the European continent, the UK, Canada and Australia on how medical professionals of all stripes can become more accountable to the public. The co
During the last few decades metaphors have increasingly been employed to aid academic understanding of both theory and society in the modern Western world. This growing interest in metaphors has been
Professions are increasingly linked with enterprise at a number of interrelated levels. By considering the relationship of professions to the enterprise contexts in which they work, this book reveals
Bringing together leading academics worldwide, this book - the first in Policy Press’s Sociology of Health Professions series - compares and critically examines the ways in which different count
