The constitutional processes are now complete and Robert F Kennedy, Jr has been confirmed as Secretary for Health and Human Services despite a vicious, and at times vitriolic, campaign waged by the biomedical and public health establishment. For more than fifty years, I have been reading work by US medical sociologists on the power and… Read More »
An editorial in the British Medical Journal has called for a reappraisal of the criticism of overtreatment by Ivan Illich, a commentator on cultural issues who had a considerable influence in the late 1960s and 1970s. My response notes that this part of Illich’s work relies on reflexive work by the medical profession itself. Focussing… Read More »
Professions and the Social Order: Some Lessons from Burkina Faso? NATÉWINDÉ SAWADOGO, University of Ouaga II ROBERT DINGWALL, Nottingham Trent University Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie Early View Article DOI: 10.1111/cars.12209 IT HAS LONG BEEN OBSERVED that the study of professions has been dominated by Anglo-American models, with their focus on a small… Read More »