American Medicine and the Public Interest, by ROSEMARY STEVENS, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1971, pp. xiii, 572, £9.00. Rosemary Stevens has delineated the effect on medicine of the formation of professional societies representing the specialties into which it became divided in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its introductory section, an examination of professionalizato...

TEIZO OGAWA (editor), History of the professionalization ofmedicine: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on the Comparative History ofMedicine-East and West, Osaka, The Taniguchi Foundation, 1987, 8vo, pp. x, 187, [no price stated], (paperback). Although this is the third in a series of volumes based on the annual Taniguchi International Symposia, its successors, volumes four through...

Although bioethics societies are developing standards for clinical ethicists and a code of ethics, they have been castigated in this journal as "a moral, if not an ethics, disaster" for not having completed this task. Compared with the development of codes of ethics and educational standards in law and medicine, however, the pace of professionalization in bioethics appears appropriate. Assessed...

OBJECTIVES To describe how the Nutrition Society developed public health nutrition as a profession between 1992 and 1997, and to analyse the influences propelling on this professionalization. DESIGN Qualitative case study. SETTING Britain. RESULTS The Nutrition Society of Britain consulted with various stakeholders (such as dietitians, researchers, professionals and practitioners and educ...

Counseling parents in supporting their children’s learning processes is increasingly emphasized in research on parental involvement and teacher professionalization as a central task of teachers. However, to date there have been few approaches of developing theoretical or psychometric models that describe the internal structure of teachers’ counseling competence in terms of specific skills and a...

The paper addresses the issue of the driving forces behind recent changes in labour market entry outcomes in Europe. Based on data for 12 European countries from the 1988-1997 European Community Labour Force Survey, the empirical analyses estimate panel data models to assess the effects of cyclical changes in aggregate economic conditions, changing youth cohort sizes, increasing educational exp...

This paper identifies potential impacts of recent legislative OHS reforms in Denmark on OHS management in companies; the focus being how this shift in legislation has manifested itself in the companies’ organization and daily work with OHS. We report from an exploratory multiple case study using a qualitative research methodology. Our findings reveal several themes related to the development of...

To better understand barriers service providers may face when advocating for survivors, a study using grounded theory and qualitative, semistructured interviews was conducted of rape victim advocates (N= 25) working in rape crisis centers in a large metropolitan area. Broader societal attitudes framed and were reflected in institutional responses to victims and in barriers faced by advocates wo...

Abstract In the United Kingdom (UK), professional female football has grown exponentially in recent years, including with advent of Women's Super League. Given this growth, present study aimed to (a) explore junior-to-senior transition UK players (i.e., perceived demands, barriers, resources, and coping strategies); (b) analyze how changes context increased professionalization) influenced playe...