One more along those lines...see also "The Careless Society", John  
McKnight

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On 2-May-07, at 11:04 AM, Michael MacDonald wrote:

> For others interested in the other author that I mentioned to Linda  
> Green:
>
> Check out Ivan Illich - Disabling Professions - a collection of  
> works on the role of professions (the key targets in the collection  
> are doctors, lawyers and teachers) and they sometime (intentionally  
> or unintentionally) ursurp the independence of clients/students/ 
> patients.  The essays offer some critical insight on the power  
> structures of the professional roles.
>
> Very good reading for those interested in understanding these things.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
>
> On 02/05/07, Linda Green <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> oops. excuse me please for resending that book information of  
> Michael's to the sdoh listees without comment. Michael thanks for  
> posting information about that book and how to locate it. I am  
> going to look it up.
>
> Another title -
>
> Professionalism reborn: Theory prophecy and policy. Eliot Friedson.  
> Polity Press. 1994.
>
> Friedson's (it seems) exhaustive discussion of professionalization  
> includes a discussion about the expediency of various ways of  
> defining and examining professionalization based on how these  
> approaches position the sociology of occupation in relation to  
> other knowledge. For someone without greater knowledge of the  
> sociology of occpuation, I find the thoroughness of the discussion  
> helpful and I really appreciate Friedson's careful expression of  
> his intent and positioning in the book. I have yet to engage fully  
> with this text but I sense I will be left wanting more.
>
> Anyone care to share other critical refs on the subject of  
> professionalization? Michael, I will definitely look the one you  
> suggested up and I appreciate you letting us know about it.
>
> How about references that address or discuss organized strategies  
> of response to professionalization? Are there any?
>
> What is happening to activism and advocacy when we begin to see it  
> as something individual agency managers can do? This strikes me a  
> bit (perhaps in a gross way) like the distinction made between the  
> usages made of PAR north and south, described succinctly in an  
> article Dennis posted recently about a grad student's experience of  
> PAR.
>
> Ocean and others thank you very much for your comments and for your  
> willingness to engage on this issue. I wonder what shape  
> conversations like this will take in 10 years, and how public those  
> conversations will be. Is research becoming a close to uncontested  
> medium for public (a  not very inclusionary notion of public mind  
> you) conversation?  Is that an absurd thought?
>
> Linda
>
> Linda Green writes:
> For those of you interested in examining the "Culture of  
> Professionalism" -
> check out Burton J. Bledstein's book from the 1970's (same title or
> similar).  He offered a great historical analysis of the emergence of
> professionalization and its raison d'etre.
>
> It's no coincidence that "professionalism" emerged during the same  
> era as
> "corporations".  The intents behind professionalization and  
> corporatization
> appear to be one and the same.
>
> I think I've seen it on abebooks.com or gemmbooks.com for  
> reasonable prices
> as a used title.  Also - check out betterworld.com
>
> ____________________
> Linda Green
> University of Toronto
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