Regulating Professions : : The Emergence of Professional Self-Regulation in Four Canadian Provinces / / Tracey L Adams.

Self-regulation has long been at the core of sociological understandings of what it means to be a "profession." However, the historical processes resulting in the formation of self-regulating professions have not been well understood. In Regulating Professions, Tracey L. Adams explores the...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Theorizing Professions
  • 2. The Emergence of Self-Regulating Professions in Pre-Confederation Canada
  • 3. Self-Regulating Professions Post-Confederation
  • 4. Case Studies in Self-Regulation: Medicine, Dentistry, and Land Surveying
  • 5. The Expansion and Alteration of Professional Self-Regulation, 1900-1930s
  • 6. Contests over the Regulation of "Drugless Healers," 1900-1930s
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index