The division of labour in vision care: professional competence in a system of professions

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Which vision care services are practiced by general practitioners, opthalmologists and optometrists in the Netherlands are discussed. Division of labor, task boundary conflicts, and consensus on professional domains are assessed. Patient cases show considerable overlap in the services provided by these professions. Increased inter-professional coordination would probably only result from external intervention.

Netherlands, Care and treatment, Medicine, Practice, Vision disorders, Ophthalmology, Medical specialties

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Alternative medicine and the health care division of labour: present trends and future prospects

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This article examines the increasing professionalization of alternative medicines in western societies. The author, maintaining the general public has demonstrated an increased interest in alternative medicine, argues that even though alternative medicine is becoming more and more popular the practitioners are still marginalized in the occupational structure of orthodox health care.

United Kingdom, Social aspects, Management, Health care industry, Medical personnel, Alternative medicine

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Reappraising the risk society thesis: telescopic sight or myopic vision?

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The risk society thesis proposed by Ulrich Beck in the 1990s is re-examined to evaluate its merits in terms of everyday cultural processes and practices in contemporary society.

Analysis, Risk (Economics), Works, Industrial sociology, Beck, Ulrich

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