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Preoccupations of the medical profession in Australia 100 years ago
Author(s) -
Coote Bill
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2001.tb143150.x
Subject(s) - medical profession , corporation , competence (human resources) , power (physics) , precondition , political science , law , sociology , public relations , management , medicine , medical education , economics , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , programming language
The triumph of the profession depends on belief rather than force, on its growing cultural authority rather than sheer power, on the success of its claims to competence and understanding . . . As professional bickering died down, the authority of the profession rose. The profession's mastery of itself was the precondition for its mastery of the public sentiment”. Starr P. Escape from the corporation 1900‐1930. The social transformation o1 American medicine. New York, USA: Basic Books, 1982; 229‐230.