| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 241 pages) |
| Series |
Sociology of health professions |
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Sociology of health professions.
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| Contents |
Front Cover -- Half-title -- Series -- The Allied Health Professions: A Sociological Perspective -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' overvies -- Introduction -- The allied health professions -- The sociology of the professions: theoretical insights -- Taxonomic approach (trait and functionalist perspectives) -- Professional power perspectives: asking a different question -- Marxist theory and the professions -- Professional knowledge: indeterminacy and technicality -- Foucault, disciplinary power and 'the gaze' |
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Neo-Weberian perspectives -- Social closure -- Professional dominance -- The professional project -- Bourdieu: symbolic capital and symbolic violence -- Book overview -- One The allied health collective -- What are the 'allied health professions'? -- The nature of allied health profession work -- The international context of allied health -- Allied health professions: migration and the global workforce -- The Australian and UK health and social care contexts -- The evolution of the allied health professions -- The 'pre-professions' -- Medical registration -- The medico-bureaucratic alliance |
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State control over healthcare -- Two Diversity in the allied health professions -- Gender -- Choice of profession -- Interprofessional diversity -- Ethnicity -- Conclusion -- Three The established allied health professions -- Optometry: allied to medicine or allied to itself? A case of splendid isolation -- Optometry: allied to itself or allied to others? -- Radiography: allied to medicine or dependent upon it? -- Radiography and the independent prescribing of medicines: divided and conquered? -- Discussion -- Four Emerging allied health professions -- The professionalisation of pedorthics |
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The professionalisation of operating department practitioners -- The professional pathway of developmental educators in the disability field -- Discussion -- Five The support workforce within the allied health division of labour -- The growth of support workers in allied health -- The allied health division of labour -- Occupational therapy assistant practitioners -- Podiatry assistants -- Discussion -- Six Specialisation in allied health -- Podiatry and foot surgery: from aspiration to regulation -- See one, do one: the origins of podiatric surgery in the UK |
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From the margins to mainstream: establishing podiatric surgery in the National Health Service -- Professional titles as 'symbolic capital' -- Allied health professions as prescribers of medicines -- From zero to hero: the shift towards physiotherapy, podiatry and radiography prescribing -- Allied health prescribing: current issues -- Seven Post-professionalism and allied health -- Interprofessional role boundaries of diabetes educators -- Rural allied health generalist model -- Discussion -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
Drawing on case studies from optometrists, physiotherapists, pedorthists and allied health assistants, this book offers an innovative comparison of allied health occupations in Australia and Britain. Adopting a theory of the sociology of health professions, it explores how the allied health professions can achieve their professional goals |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Social medicine -- Australia
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Social medicine -- Great Britain
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Allied health personnel -- Australia -- Social conditions
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Allied health personnel -- Great Britain -- Social conditions
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MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / General.
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Social medicine
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Sociologie.
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Gezondheidszorg.
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Great Britain
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Australia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Borthwick, Alan (Alan M.), author.
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| ISBN |
9781447345381 |
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144734538X |
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9781447345374 |
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1447345371 |
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