Professional Dominance: The Social Structure of Medical Care

by Eliot Freidson

In the United States today we are confronted by a number of serious social problems, not the least of which concern the character of our basic human services. In each of the broad public domains of welfare, education, law, and health there are crises of public confidence. Each in its own way is failing to accomplish its essential mission of alleviating material deprivation, instructing the young, controlling and righting criminal and civil wrongs,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138530867
• ISBN13: 9781138530867
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"