High risk and high stakes : health professionals, politics, and policy
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
High risk and high stakes : health professionals, politics, and policy
（Contributions in sociology, no. 100）
Greenwood Press, 1992
Available at / 21 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-163) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Wysong analyzes the nature and extent of the involvement of seven major health and safety professional organizations in the development of the most significant national reform effort in occupational health policy since the OSH Act of 1970: The High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act.
The professions have long been a focus of study in sociology; however, this is the first book to examine how the interests and involvement of health professional's organizations on a national health policy issue are linked to external interests and dynamic contextual factors. By illuminating how professional societies' policy choices are embedded within and shaped by economic and political contexts, Wysong refines prevailing new class interpretations of professionals' interests where policy reforms are concerned. This book will be of particular concern to scholars and researchers involved with medical sociology, the sociology of work, complex organizations, social change, and occupational health policy.
Table of Contents
Foreword Professional Societies and Policy Issues Organizations, Theory, and Health Policy Risk Notification: Concept and Policy The High Risk Legislation: 1985-88 The Focal Actors: Descriptions, Linkages, and Analysis Case Narratives: Four Who Played Case Narratives: Three Who Passed Summary and Conclusions References Index Index
by "Nielsen BookData"