s of papers relating to these issues are invited for consideration for the conferenceand should be sent to Andrew Sayer at the address below by the extended deadline of1 March 2005 Conference organiser: Andrew Sayer, Professor of Social Theory and Political Economy,Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, LA1 4YD, U.K. [email protected] Conference secretary: Pennie Drink...

high point of human achievement, or, in George Bernard Shaw’s piquant phrase, as a “conspiracy against the laity,” there is little question that they have played a dominant role in industrial and postindustrial society since the early twentieth century. It is dif1⁄2cult to envision our era without the physicians, lawyers, and accountants to whom we turn for help at crucial times; or the archite...

OBJECTIVE Allied health (AH) includes many diverse professions, each with a unique contribution to healthcare, making it possible to consider these professions as person oriented (PO) or technique oriented (TO). This paper explored the personality traits of AH professionals from the perspective of both the PO or TO orientation and the individual professions. METHODS AH professionals (n=562) p...

This chapter reviews two areas of the medical regulation literature; the licensing of medical professionals and medical malpractice. The licensing literature draws upon a more general literature which explains the existence of regulation as reflecting the interests of either (1) the regulated profession, (2) the public, or (3) a combination of both the public and the profession. The major contr...