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Professional practice is a social phenomenon in essence and in realisation. How we view professional practice in any era is influenced by the sociocultural and historical influences on that era. “There is no single, a historical set of professional practices” (Broadbent, Dietrich, & Roberts, 2005, p. 1). Contextual change is dynamic rather than linear, embedded rather than objective, conditional rather than predictable, and is amenable to influence rather than inevitable.
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Higgs, J., Patton, N. (2014). Professional Practice. In: Higgs, J., Croker, A., Tasker, D., Hummell, J., Patton, N. (eds) Health Practice Relationships. Practice, Education, Work and Society. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-788-9_2
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