CO-OPTATION, COMMODIFICATION AND THE MEDICAL MODEL: GOVERNING UK MEDICINE SINCE 1991

摘要: Self-regulation and autonomy are traditionally treated as distinctive elements of how professions governed in contrast to other occupations. For medicine, these provide a collective medium governance (through the institutions professional self-regulation) an individual practice 'clinical autonomy'). Both reinforced by intellectual dominance so-called 'biomedical model' health illness. Analysts generally agree that, many countries, both self-regulation clinical under significant challenge. But it is less obvious UK at least, biomedical model has effectively been co-opted for managerial purposes support commodification medical care. Thus ideas that have considered supporting transpired be source weakness profession.