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The allied health professions : a sociological perspective / Susan Nancarrow and Alan Borthwick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nancarrow, Susan, author.
- Borthwick, Alan (Alan M.), author.
- Series:
- Sociology of health professions.
- Sociology of health professions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine--Australia.
- Social medicine.
- Social medicine--Great Britain.
- Allied health personnel--Australia--Social conditions.
- Allied health personnel.
- Allied health personnel--Great Britain--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 241 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Drawing on case studies from optometrists, physiotherapists, pedorthists and allied health assistants, this book offers an innovative comparison of allied health occupations in Australia and Britain. Adopting a theory of the sociology of health professions, it explores how the allied health professions can achieve their professional goals.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half-title
- Series
- The Allied Health Professions: A Sociological Perspective
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Editors' overvies
- Introduction
- The allied health professions
- The sociology of the professions: theoretical insights
- Taxonomic approach (trait and functionalist perspectives)
- Professional power perspectives: asking a different question
- Marxist theory and the professions
- Professional knowledge: indeterminacy and technicality
- Foucault, disciplinary power and 'the gaze'
- Neo-Weberian perspectives
- Social closure
- Professional dominance
- The professional project
- Bourdieu: symbolic capital and symbolic violence
- Book overview
- One The allied health collective
- What are the 'allied health professions'?
- The nature of allied health profession work
- The international context of allied health
- Allied health professions: migration and the global workforce
- The Australian and UK health and social care contexts
- The evolution of the allied health professions
- The 'pre-professions'
- Medical registration
- The medico-bureaucratic alliance
- State control over healthcare
- Two Diversity in the allied health professions
- Gender
- Choice of profession
- Interprofessional diversity
- Ethnicity
- Conclusion
- Three The established allied health professions
- Optometry: allied to medicine or allied to itself? A case of splendid isolation
- Optometry: allied to itself or allied to others?
- Radiography: allied to medicine or dependent upon it?
- Radiography and the independent prescribing of medicines: divided and conquered?
- Discussion
- Four Emerging allied health professions
- The professionalisation of pedorthics
- The professionalisation of operating department practitioners.
- The professional pathway of developmental educators in the disability field
- Five The support workforce within the allied health division of labour
- The growth of support workers in allied health
- The allied health division of labour
- Occupational therapy assistant practitioners
- Podiatry assistants
- Six Specialisation in allied health
- Podiatry and foot surgery: from aspiration to regulation
- See one, do one: the origins of podiatric surgery in the UK
- From the margins to mainstream: establishing podiatric surgery in the National Health Service
- Professional titles as 'symbolic capital'
- Allied health professions as prescribers of medicines
- From zero to hero: the shift towards physiotherapy, podiatry and radiography prescribing
- Allied health prescribing: current issues
- Seven Post-professionalism and allied health
- Interprofessional role boundaries of diabetes educators
- Rural allied health generalist model
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2022).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781447345374
- 1447345371
- 9781447345404
- 1447345401
- 9781447345367
- 1447345363
- OCLC:
- 1241445582
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