PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND STATE POLICY IN COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: LAW AND MEDICINE IN BRITAIN, GERMANY, AND THE UNITED STATES
In: International social science journal: ISSJ, Heft 122, S. 529-553
Abstract
PROFESSION AND POLICY ARE TERMS THAT HAVE ACQUIRED DISTINCT, ALBEIT POORLY BOUNDED, MEANINGS IN ENGLISH BUT LACK EQUIVALENTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES. PARTICULAR PROFESSIONS LIKE THOSE OF LAW AND MEDICINE, ON THE OTHER HAND, HAVE MAINTAINED RATHER SIMILAR MEANINGS AND IDENTITIES IN VARIOUS WESTERN NATIONAL SETTINGS. BUT WITHIN THESE NATIONAL SETTINGS SUBCOMPONENTS OF THE LEGAL AND MEDICAL PROFESSIONS HAVE, OVERTIME, CHANGED THEIR RELATIONSHIPS TO EACH OTHER, AS WELL AS TO THE STATE AND TO THEIR CLIENTS. HENCE A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS MAY FOCUS ON HOW, THROUGH THEIR INTERACTIONS WITH STATE STRUCTURES, PROFESSIONS HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO SHAPING DIFFERENCES IN NATIONAL POLICY PROFILES.
Themen
GERMANY IN GENERAL, UNITED STATES, 1945 TO PRESENT, MEDICINE, GREAT BRITAIN, PUBLIC POLICY, LAW AND LEGAL SYSTEMS
ISSN: 0020-8701
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