Medical Dominance Revisited
Special Issue of Health Sociology Review
Volume 15 Issue 5 December 2006
96 pages ISBN 978-0-9757422-6-6
Editor:
Evan Willis
School of Social Science, La Trobe University, VIC
Medical Dominance The Division of Labour in Australian Health Care (Evan Willis, 1983; 1989 revised edition, oop) argued against a 'technological determinist' explanation for the existing division of labour in Australian health care. Instead it argued that 'hierarchy preceded technology' with the medical profession achieving its dominance over the Australian health system by the 1930s, and that it has defended this dominance against other health care occupations since (Latrobe Media Release, 2003).
In 2003, TASA members nominated Medical Dominance in the top 10 books published since 1963 that most profoundly shaped Australian sociological scholarship. Publishing in late 2006 as Medical Dominance Revisited (ISBN 0-9757422-6-4), this comprehensive special issue of Health Sociology Review reviews almost 20 years of literature since first revision, then revisits, updates and expands Medical Dominance in eight chapters of invited papers from international experts.
It is designed as an international update with comparative papers from the US, UK, Canada, Europe and Scandinavia with a conclusion on global implications of medical dominance.
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