The Professions and Public Policy / / ed. by Philip Slayton, Michael J. Trebilcock.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, G. W.,; Benham, Alexandra,; Benham, Lee,; Castonguay, Claude,; Dussault, René,; Evans, Robert G.,; Fraser, D.,; Gunderson, Morley,; Illich, Ivan,; Kaiser, Gordon E.,; Krever, Horace,; Lieberman, Jethro K.,; Meltz, Noah,; Mustard, J. F.,; Olley, R .E.,; Ostry, Sylvia,; Prichard, J. Robert S.,; Rose, Albert,; Sheppard, Claude-Armand,; Skolnik, Michael L.,; Slayton, Philip,; Spitzer, Walter O.,; Stager, David,; Taman, Larry,; Thomas, Alan M.,; Trebilcock, Michael J.,; Tuohy, Carolyn J.,; Wolfson, Alan D.,; Wright, D. T.,; Younger, James W.,
• HerausgeberIn: Slayton, Philip,; Trebilcock, Michael J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (356 p.)

In this collection of twenty-five papers given at a conference sponsored by the Law and Economics program of the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law, the contributors tackle many of the varied problems being raised today about the conduct of the professions in society. The traditional self-regulating model has been questioned on many grounds and the number of self-employed professionals is declining. The enlargement of the area of state power and the emergence of ideas about fairer access to professional services also serve to bring the relations between society and professionals into debate. Sylvia Ostry, as deputy minister for the federal Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs, argues for more competition; Claude Castonguay speaks for the Quebec model of a supervisory public body. The book is divided into several parts: regulatory philosophies; self-regulation -- who qualifies?: Professional education; supply and access; para-professionals; employed professionals; and regulating continuing competence. There is an introduction by one of the editors, and a concluding paper by Ivan Illich characterizing this as the age of disabling professions. The work unites many aspects of a complex social phenomenon that has risen in Canada as in other countries. It will interest all concerned with the development of professions and their future evolution, including professionals and para-professionals themselves.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- The professions and public policy : the nature of the agenda -- REGULATORY PHILOSOPHIES -- Competition policy and the self-regulating professions -- Competition policy and the self-regulating professions -- Prospects for increasing competition in the professions -- Federal competition law and the professions : problems of jurisdiction -- The future of self-regulation: a view from Quebec -- The future of self-regulation: a consumer economist's viewpoint -- Some reflections on self-regulation -- SELF-REGULATION: WHO QUALIFIES? -- The Office des Professions du Quebec in the context of the development of professionalism -- Self-regulation: who qualifies? -- PROFESSION AL EDUCATION -- The objectives of professional education -- Professional education and the consumer interest: a framework for inquiry -- Health professional education -- Professional education -- SUPPLY AND ACCESS -- Manpower planning in the professions -- Beyond manpower forecasting: some reflections on its meaning for the professions -- Universal access: the Trojan horse -- PARAPROFESSIONALS -- Evidence that justifies the introduction of new health professionals -- The emerging legal paraprofessionals -- EMPLOYED PROFESSIONALS -- Economic aspects of the unionization of salaried professionals -- Collective bargaining by salaried professionals -- Bicameralism and the professional college -- Professional incomes and government restraint programs: the case of the employee professions -- REGULATING CONTINUING COMPETENCE -- Professional incomes and government restraint programs: the case of the employee professions -- Enforcing continuing competence -- Leaming, compulsion, and professional behaviour -- A CONCLUDING PERSPECTIVE -- The need-makers