MODERNISING HEALTH CARE Reinventing professions, the state and the public

Health care is a key arena of the modernisation of welfare states. Tighterresources and a changing spectrum of diseases, coupled with newmodes of citizenship and demands for public safety, challenge thehealth care systems throughout the Western world. This book sets outto examine new perspectives on the governance of health care and tohighlight the role of the professions as mediators between the stateand its citizens. It brings the interdependence and tensions betweenthe health professions, the state and public interest into focus thatrelease ongoing dynamics into the health system. The emerging patternsof a new professionalism in late modernity and interprofessionaldynamics lie at...
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MODERNISING HEALTH CARE Reinventing professions, the state and the public