Eliot Freidson: 3 books
Professionalism
The Third Logic
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specialized workers control their own work, while in the free market consumers are in command, and in bureaucracy managers dominate. Freidson shows how each...
by Eliot Freidson, Judith Lorber
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
"Medical Professionals and Their Work" conveys how medical people shape and organize the knowledge, perception, and experience of illness, as well as the substance of illness behavior, its management, and treatment. It is now well established that the unique symbolic equipment of the human...
Professionalism Reborn
Theory, Prophecy and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
This book is an original interpretation of the professions and the role of the professional in Western industrial societies today.