The Allied Health Professions: A Sociological Perspective

Front Cover -- Half-title -- Series -- The Allied Health Professions: A Sociological Perspective -- Copyright Information -- Table Of Contents -- List Of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' Overvies -- Introduction -- The Allied Health Professions -- The Sociology Of The Professions: Theoretical Insights -- Taxonomic Approach (trait And Functionalist Perspectives) -- Professional Power Perspectives: Asking A Different Question -- Marxist Theory And The Professions -- Professional Knowledge: Indeterminacy And Technicality -- Foucault, Disciplinary Power And 'the Gaze' Neo-weberian Perspectives -- Social Closure -- Professional Dominance -- The Professional Project -- Bourdieu: Symbolic Capital And Symbolic Violence -- Book Overview -- One The Allied Health Collective -- What Are The 'allied Health Professions'? -- The Nature Of Allied Health Profession Work -- The International Context Of Allied Health -- Allied Health Professions: Migration And The Global Workforce -- The Australian And Uk Health And Social Care Contexts -- The Evolution Of The Allied Health Professions -- The 'pre-professions' -- Medical Registration -- The Medico-bureaucratic Alliance State Control Over Healthcare -- Two Diversity In The Allied Health Professions -- Gender -- Choice Of Profession -- Interprofessional Diversity -- Ethnicity -- Conclusion -- Three The Established Allied Health Professions -- Optometry: Allied To Medicine Or Allied To Itself? A Case Of Splendid Isolation -- Optometry: Allied To Itself Or Allied To Others? -- Radiography: Allied To Medicine Or Dependent Upon It? -- Radiography And The Independent Prescribing Of Medicines: Divided And Conquered? -- Discussion -- Four Emerging Allied Health Professions -- The Professionalisation Of Pedorthics The Professionalisation Of Operating Department Practitioners -- The Professional Pathway Of Developmental Educators In The Disability Field -- Discussion -- Five The Support Workforce Within The Allied Health Division Of Labour -- The Growth Of Support Workers In Allied Health -- The Allied Health Division Of Labour -- Occupational Therapy Assistant Practitioners -- Podiatry Assistants -- Discussion -- Six Specialisation In Allied Health -- Podiatry And Foot Surgery: From Aspiration To Regulation -- See One, Do One: The Origins Of Podiatric Surgery In The Uk From The Margins To Mainstream: Establishing Podiatric Surgery In The National Health Service -- Professional Titles As 'symbolic Capital' -- Allied Health Professions As Prescribers Of Medicines -- From Zero To Hero: The Shift Towards Physiotherapy, Podiatry And Radiography Prescribing -- Allied Health Prescribing: Current Issues -- Seven Post-professionalism And Allied Health -- Interprofessional Role Boundaries Of Diabetes Educators -- Rural Allied Health Generalist Model -- Discussion -- Index -- Back Cover Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.