CAS SO 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pharmaceutical Industry, Fibromyalgia, Managed Care
31 Dec 2016
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Profession is an occupation what has assumed a dominant position in a division of labor, so that it gains control over the determination of the substance of its work. Difference between profession and occupations o key difference is how professions control their knowledge and skill. Professions control the abstract knowledge; technique itself may be delegated to others. Professional jurisdiction o jurisdiction is a link between the profession and its work, a way of achieving and maintaining dominance o jurisdiction claims are made in three realms: The workplace o examples: the teaching of basic sciences in medical schools is unnecessary and serves primarily the goal of controlling its jurisdiction by the medical profession, since it can control theory much better than practice. American medicine in the 19th century o family care-giving most common o medicine was not prestigious field. Irregular practitioners homeopaths cure by similar o medical care often dangerous.
