Challenging Medicine

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 7
Dedication......Page 8
Preface......Page 9
Understanding medical dominance inthe modern world......Page 11
THE RISE OF MANAGERIALISM......Page 30
MANAGEMENT AND THE NHS REFORMS......Page 33
THE IMPACT OF THE MANAGERIAL REVOLUTION ONCLINICIANS......Page 37
From tribalism to corporatism......Page 41
MEDICINE AND MANAGEMENT: A POSSIBLE SCENARIO......Page 44
CONCLUSION......Page 48
REFERENCES......Page 49
INTRODUCTION......Page 52
NURSE PROFESSIONALISATION PAST AND PRESENT......Page 54
HISTORICAL CONTINUITIES IN NURSING’SOCCUPATIONAL STRATEGY......Page 56
THENEW NURSING AND PRACTITIONER AUTONOMY......Page 58
THE CHALLENGE TO MEDICINE?......Page 62
GENDER, THE NEW NURSING, AND THE CHALLENGE TOMEDICINE......Page 66
BEYOND THE HEALTH DIVISION OF LABOUR......Page 68
CONCLUSION......Page 70
REFERENCES......Page 71
3 Litigation and the threat tomedicine......Page 75
THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF MEDICAL PRACTICE......Page 76
MEDICINE, LAW AND SOCIAL CONTROL......Page 81
MEDICAL IMPERIALISM: LEGAL COLONIALISM......Page 84
THE CHALLENGE FROM LAW......Page 89
NOTES......Page 90
REFERENCES......Page 92
INTRODUCTION......Page 95
MEDICAL DOMINANCE AND THE MEDIA......Page 96
ANALYSING MEDICINE AND TELEVISION......Page 99
The Cook Report......Page 101
Operation Hospital......Page 104
Casualty......Page 107
CONCLUSION......Page 110
REFERENCES......Page 111
5 The alternatives to medicine......Page 113
GROWING CONSUMER SUPPORT FOR THE ALTERNATIVESTO MEDICINE: THE CHALLENGE TO MEDICAL ORTHODOXY......Page 114
PROFESSIONAL DOMINANCE AND THE MARGINALISATIONOF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE......Page 115
THE CHANGING POSITION OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSIONAND UNORTHODOX PRACTITIONERS: IMPLICATIONS FORPATTERNS OF DOMINANCE AND MARGINALITY......Page 117
THE FUTURE CHALLENGE TO MEDICAL ORTHODOXYFROM ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES......Page 120
THE MEDICAL PROFESSION, ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE ANDPUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY......Page 123
CONCLUSION: MARKETS, THE MEDICAL PROFESSION ANDALTERNATIVE MEDICINE......Page 127
REFERENCES......Page 129
INTRODUCTION......Page 133
SELF-HELP GROUPS AND THEIR ACTIVITIES......Page 135
SELF-HELP GROUPSIN THE CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARYCULTURE......Page 141
SELF-HELP GROUPS AS A NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENT......Page 142
CONCLUSION......Page 144
REFERENCES......Page 145
INTRODUCTION......Page 147
DIFFERENT WAYS OF KNOWING: LAY AND MEDICALKNOWLEDGE......Page 149
POPULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH......Page 153
Popular epidemiology in Massachusetts......Page 154
THE CASE OF THE CAMELFORD POISONING......Page 156
The response to the Clayton report......Page 158
The implications of Camelford......Page 161
CONCLUSION......Page 162
REFERENCES......Page 165
INTRODUCTION......Page 170
IS THERE A FEMINIST CRITIQUE OF MEDICINE?......Page 171
WHO CONTROLS WHOSE HEALTH?......Page 173
DO WOMEN GET THE TREATMENT THEY DESERVE?......Page 176
ARE WOMEN CHANGING MEDICINE?......Page 179
REFERENCES......Page 183
INTRODUCTION: ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION ANDMODERN MEDICINE......Page 190
A CENTURY OF CONTROVERSY OVER ANIMALEXPERIMENTS......Page 191
The Victorian cause......Page 192
Materialist medicine: disputing its morality and utility......Page 193
LABORATORY ANIMALS’ RIGHTS AND WRONGS: REVIVEDCONCERNS......Page 195
HEALTH WITH HUMANITY OR THE CRUEL DECEPTIONUNMASKED?......Page 197
The challenge to the morality of modern medicine......Page 198
The ‘facts’ about modern medicine?......Page 199
Why the shift in focus?......Page 201
MEDICAL RESEARCH’S RESPONSE TO THEANTI-VIVISECTIONIST CHALLENGE6......Page 202
CONCLUSION......Page 205
NOTES......Page 206
REFERENCES......Page 207
10 Epilogue......Page 211
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 217
NOTE......Page 218
Index......Page 219