PROFESSIONS IN POLITICS

Risky Professions? Risk of Disability in Professions in Norway

Modern professions provide important and essential services like engineering, financial services, and welfare state services. Sustaining a sufficient supply of these services requires professionals to remain in the workforce as long as possible. This article examines variation in the risk of disability pension among individuals with different professional education backgrounds according to the ...

Professions Program

Signature pedagogies in the professions

Dædalus Summer 2005 The psychoanalyst Erik Erikson once observed that if you wish to understand a culture, study its nurseries. There is a similar principle for the understanding of professions: if you wish to understand why professions develop as they do, study their nurseries, in this case, their forms of professional preparation. When you do, you will generally detect the characteristic form...

Workplace Bullying in Healthcare Professions

Workplace violence presents a substantial and increasing risk to employee health and wellbeing. In particular, healthcare professionals are at heightened risk of workplace bullying, also commonly known as mobbing, aggression, emotional abuse, lateral violence, horizontal violence, undermining and incivility etc. It is therefore often argued that bullying has become ‘endemic’ within healthcare. ...

Professions and patriarchy

ANNE WITZ, Professions and patriarchy, London and New York, Routledge, 1992, pp. x, 233, £10.99 (paperback 0-415-07044-9). Witz's book, based on her doctoral thesis, is primarily concerned to develop feminist and sociological theories of occupational development. But she does this through an analysis of the relationship between gender and the professionalization of medicine, midwifery, nursing ...