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International Journal of Epidemiology 2009 38(3):642-645; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp184
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2009; all rights reserved.

Commentary: Indeterminate sick-men—a commentary on Jewson's ‘Disappearance of the sick-man from medical cosmology’

David Armstrong

Department of General Practice, School of Medicine, King's College London 5 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6SP, UK.

E-mail: david.armstrong@kcl.ac.uk

Accepted 7 October 2008

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Jewson's seminal paper of 19761 explored the causes and repercussions of a radical change in medical knowledge some two centuries ago. Given the close connections between medical knowledge and clinical practice, this cognitive revolution was closely associated with changes in the organization and status of the medical profession. It was this dyadic relationship—of medical knowledge and the medical profession—that formed the underpinning for Jewson's analysis.


   The sociology of the medical profession
 
The sociology of the professions only began in the 1950s when, reflecting contemporary concerns with understanding social stability, professions (and medicine was always the archetypal profession) were seen as exemplars of social virtue and their history a model for how other occupations could aspire to higher ideals.2 In 1970, however, Freidson3 advanced the claim that the medical profession was simply a competitive ploy in the occupational marketplace and had achieved its high occupational status (and concomitant rewards) by establishing a monopoly over the definition of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   The sociology of science
 

   Marxist influence
 

   Synthesis
 

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