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Imperialism or encirclement?

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Further Readings

  • Freidson, Eliot. 1988 [1971].Profession of Medicine: A Study of the Sociology of Applied Knowledge. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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  • Murcott, Anne, ed. 2006.Sociology and Medicine: Selected Papers by P. M. Strong. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

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  • Parsons, Talcott 1991 [1951].The Social System. London: Routledge.

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Robert Dingwall is a professor and director of the Institute for the Study of Genetics, Biorisks and Society at the University of Nottingham. He has wide experience of research in the sociologies of medicine, law, and science and has been writing from time to time about professions for the last thirty years. A collection of his writings,Essays on Professions, will be published by Ashgate in 2006–07.

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Dingwall, R. Imperialism or encirclement?. Soc 43, 30–36 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02698482

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