SOSA 2503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Allopathic Medicine, Joseph Delee, Natural Childbirth
17 Apr 2016
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Professionalization: allopathic medicine - dominant system in western medicine, profession - regulation, higher education, experts, the word is more loosely used now a days. The rise of medicine as a profession in the 19th century in the. Youre assumed to be representative of these good traits of the community. Whatever social authority they have is based on their cultural authority. Promoting ideas about professional ethics and codes of conduct (medicine used to professionalize and distinguish themselves from other. Unethical quacks ) and attaining some protection from the state. The professions that were able to monopolize were generally from the working class, Later kicked out homeopaths after flexer put so much importance on science and allopathic medicine. Autonomy - the ability to control your own work (not to have a boss) dominance - the ability to control others work in the health cafe division of labour (i. e nurses, lab techs, etc)
