From tribalism to corporatism: the continuing managerial challenge to medical dominance / David J. Hunter -- The challenge of nursing / Anne Witz and Ellen Annandale -- Litigation and the threat to medicine / Robert Dingwall and Pru Hobson-West -- Television and medicine: medical dominance or trial by media? / Michael Bury and Jonathan Gabe -- The alternatives to medicine / Mike Saks -- Self-help groups and their relationship to medicine / David Kelleher -- Lay knowledge and the privilege of experience / Gareth Williams and Jennie Popay -- Sex, gender and medicine: the case of the NHS / Lesley Doyal -- Attacking the foundations of modern medicine?: anti-vivisection protest and medical science / Mary Ann Elston