Challenging medicine
By: edited by David Kelleher, Jonathan Gabe and Gareth Williams.
Contributors: Kelleher, David, 1935-; Gabe, Jonathan.; Williams, Gareth, MD.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Milton Park; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Social medicine -- Great Britain; Medical care -- Great Britain; National health services -- Great Britain; Social Medicine -- Great Britain; Delivery of Health Care -- Great Britain; Health Occupations -- Great Britain; Social Dominance -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From tribalism to corporatism: the continuing managerial challenge to medical dominance / David J. Hunter; title: The challenge of nursing / Anne Witz and Ellen Annandale; title: Litigation and the threat to medicine / Robert Dingwall and Pru Hobson-West; title: Television and medicine: medical dominance or trial by media? / Michael Bury and Jonathan Gabe; title: The alternatives to medicine / Mike Saks; title: Self-help groups and their relationship to medicine / David Kelleher; title: Lay knowledge and the privilege of experience / Gareth Williams and Jennie Popay; title: Sex, gender and medicine: the case of the NHS / Lesley Doyal; title: Attacking the foundations of modern medicine?: anti-vivisection protest and medical science / Mary Ann Elston.