Marketplace, Power, Prestige
Description
The healthcare systems of Western States are characterised by complex structures and diverse activities. The authors investigate the conflicts of various professions within the medical market from a historical perspective, thereby reaching a better understanding of contemporary questions and problems concerning the field of medical care. The focus lies on analysing the establishment of non-physician health professions in their social framework as well as their profession-specific developments. The contributions outline and explore the conflicts within one professional group as well as those between different professional groups. This volume not only examines the history of nursing, but also the history of other non-physician professions such as midwives, diabetes advisors and paramedics. The authors are particularly interested in investigating which player had interpretational sovereignty on the medical market, the social prestige of different health professions, and the profession-specific practices.
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- Intro
- Table of Contents
- (Pierre Pfütsch) An Introduction to Conflict Research: Illustrative Applications with Healthcare Professions in the 19th and 20th Century
- Interprofessional Conflicts
- (Karen Nolte) The Debate on 'Nurse Anaesthetists' in West Germany during the 1950s and 1960s
- (Eileen Thrower) "An Extension of Nursing Practice": The Evolution of Midwifery in the United States as Evidenced in Georgia, 1970-1989
- (Pierre Pfütsch) Emergency Medical Services in Germany: The Conflictual Development of a Professional Field
- Conflicts Within a Profession
- (Christoph Schwamm) Hegemonic Masculinity and the Gender Gap in Caregiving: The Contentious Presence of West German Men in Nursing since around 1970
- (Geertje Boschma) Negotiating Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) in Dutch Psychiatry: Cultural and Intraprofessional Tension over Biological Psychiatry, 1950-2010
- (Sylvelyn Hähner-Rombach ┼) Mothers on Children's Wards: Conflicts in German Paediatric Care from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s
- Conflicts due to Changes in Social Conditions
- (Jane Brooks) From Wars on the Wards to Harmonious Hospitals: British Nursing Sisters' Pursuit of Collaboration on Active Service in the Second World War
- (Eyal Katvan) "Toothless Law": The Regulation (or 'Vaguelation') of Dentistry in Mandate Palestine
- (Aaron Pfaff) Counselling Diabetics - The Hampered Development of Educational Programmes for Patients with Diabetes in Germany
- List of Authors
