Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I; 1. Social Mobility and Class Structure -- The Orthodox Approaches; 2. Professionalism and Social Class -- I; 3. Professionalism and Social Class -- II; 4. Power, Uncertainty and the Formation of Social Structure; 5. Collective Social Mobility and Social Structure; Part II; 6. From Apothecary to General Practitioner: A Successful Struggle for Upward Assimilation and Occupational Closure, 1790-1858
7. Professional Consolidation and Status, 1858-19118. Sexual Divisions and the Medical Occupations; 9. Doctors and the State: From National Health Insurance to National Health Service, 1911-1948; 10. Doctors in the National Health Service, 1948-1975; Part III; 11. Concluding Summary and Some Images of the Future; Bibliography; Index