For the first time, a book considers the doctor/patient relationship in the long period and from a broad geographical perspective. Historians, anthropologists and doctors reflect on the factors that, from the Classical age until the present, have altered the care relationship and the power relations embedded within it. The book also highlights that communication and narration, understood as constitutive aspects of care, are the elements which link the past to the present. From the encounter between religion and medicine to the centuries-long struggle between doctors and patients in defence of their respective positions, from medical dramas to efforts to humanize medicine, the book describes the doctor/patient relationship in all its cultural, transnational and transtemporal dimensions.

Doctors and Patients: History, Representation, Communication from Antiquity to the Present

Malatesta, Maria

History

University of California Medical Humanities Press

This book tells the story of the principal European intellectual professions from the demise of the ancient régime to the rise of the European Union. A historical study which applies sociological concepts it creates a European-scale picture of the professions spanning over two centuries of change. 
Uniting the legal, medical, engineering and accounting professions it provides a comparative historical and sociological exploration of ′Professional Europe′. 
The book: 
• comprehensively investigates the roots and origins of the four professions
• reconstructs the processes and changes which have characterised them 
• charts their response to external agents such as the state, diverse social movements, economic crises and wars. 
Inspired by Bourdieu it rejects theories of professionalization drawing instead upon the sociology of crisis and theories on the decline of the professions to introduce the intellectual professions′ relationship with the fascist and authoritarian regimes. 
Detailed, well defined and critical in its application Professional Men, Professional Women also examines the role of women within the professions and includes a devoted chapter conducting a twofold comparison between countries and professions.

Professional Men, Professional Women: The European Professions from the 19th Century until Today (SAGE Studies in International Sociology)

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

Sage Publications Ltd.

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