Professions and the Public Interest
Subtitle: Medical Power, Altruism and Alternative Medicine
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 13, 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780415116688
First sentence: As the Introduction to this book has indicated, the recognition given to the contemporary significance of professions in the Western occupational structure has certainly highlighted the pivotal question considered in this book - namely, that of whether professional groups act as altruistically as their own ideologies suggest.