...Lars Thorup Larsen Abstract Medical associations not only organize their members' interests but also exercise professional authority within the field of health policy. An important aspect of professional authority is the medical profession's ability to position itself in relation to national health...

... professional peak associations. The junior doctors' grievances could find expression either through increased “voice” within the medical negotiating machinery, or by pursuing the exit option in having the medical associations quit the peak associations. The article explains why the “exit” option was selected...

...Arnold D. Kaluzny W. Richard Scott, Marin Ruef, Peter J. Mendel, and Carol A. Caronna. Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations: From Professional Dominance to Managed Care . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 442 pp. $58.00 cloth. © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001...

...Frederic W. Hafferty; Jon Tilburt Abstract Within the fields of medicine and sociology, the descriptor “profession” (along with its brethren: profession, professionalization, and professionalism) has had a rich etymological history, with terms taking on different meanings at different times...

... geographic and career mobility, and contribute to the reduced utilization of newer, emergent categories of health personnel. This paper addresses a subject that is often overlooked in the literature on licensing: the inherent conflict-of-interest in professional licensing boards, where the predominant voice...

...Kathryn M. Langwell; Jack L. Werner The problem of professional liability claims and impact on the medical care market has become increasingly important in recent years. Professional liability insurance premiums, and the practice of defensive medicine by physicians in response to potential...

...Douglas A. Hastings The degree of confidentiality to be accorded data gathered and analyzed by Professional Standards Review Organizations (PSROs) in the course of their medical peer review activities is a crucial and controversial issue in health policy. In late 1977, a consumer organization...

...Alfred E. Miller Deborah A. Stone, The Limits of Professional Power: National Health Care in the Federal Republic of Germany (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), 212 pp. Copyright © 1982 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1982 792 Journal of Health Politics...

... to sociopolitical change. During the first period (1963–2000), the legacy of colonial biomedicine shaped medical professionalism and tensions with a changing state following independence. The next period (2000–2010) was marked by the rise of corporate medicine as an organized form of resistance to state control...

... call forth participatory practices in health careand a concomitant diminution of specialization and expansion of the public sphere. The result would be to blur the lines separating politics from everyday interaction, politics from economy, professionals from patients, and insurers from insureds...

... an effective weapon in the fight against health-care reform.” Professional Sovereignty in a Changing Health Care System: Reflections on Paul Starr’s The Social Transformation of American Medicine Keith Wailoo...

.... Business and Economic History 23 : 130 -160. Savage, Deborah A., and Paul L. Robertson. 1998 . The Maintenance of Professional Authority: The Case of Physicians and Hospitals in the United States. In Authority and Control in Modern Industry , ed. Paul L. Robertson. London: Routledge. Scranton...

... .The Issue of Aging Faculty in Higher Education. Journal of Professional Nursing 5 (2): 77 -82. Burns, L. R., R. M. Andersen, and S. M. Shortell. 1989 . The Impact of Corporate Structures on Physician Inclusion and Participation. Medical Care 27 : 967 -982. Coffman, J. M., J. Q. Young, K...

...Deborah Stone This paper examines the new Professional Standards Review Organizations (PSROs) program in light of a similar program (“Economic Monitoring”) that has been used in West Germany for over forty years. In the first section the PSRO program is described as government-mandated peer review...

...Adam Oliver; Lawrence D. Brown We are at the beginning of an era in which the pressure to secure the biggest possible “bang” for the health care “buck” is perhaps higher than it ever has been, on both sides of the Atlantic, and within the health policy discourse, incentives, for both professionals...

... liability for these new health professionals. Among the issues discussed in substantial detail are whether a separate standard of care is appropriate, whether the new professionals might function as independent contractors, and the importance of striking an adequate social balance between improved access...

...Margaret Levi Registered nurses have been attempting to achieve professional status for nearly a century. Historical investigation of their efforts in the United States and a case study of the 1976 Seattle Nurses' strike indicate major obstacles to the professionalizing project. The most important...

... and the attitudes of their members were studied. The results showed that the urban, high case-load, professionally-oriented board informally modified statutory procedures significantly to reduce face-to-face client contact, limit the scope of its decisions, and displace responsibility for the most ambiguous...

...Richard G. Frank James W. Begun, Professionalism and the Public Interest: Price and Quality in Optometry (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1981), 140 pp., $17.50 Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982 746 Journal of Heaith Politics...

...Giandomenico Majone Many professionals prefer to work in nonprofit organizations, rather than in either for-profit or bureaucratic organizations. This preference suggests that nonprofits may be successful in reducing the tension between professional principles and institutional requirements...