This book enhances our understanding of the links between professions, the state and the market - and their implications for the public in terms of professional practice. This will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students of Management, Public Policy and Health Care Management.

Part I: Introduction 1. Professions in Comparative Perspective: The Case of Medicine Part II: The Medical Profession, State and the Market 2. Medicine in Britain 3. Medicine in the United States 4. Medicine in Russia Part III: Conclusion 5. The Professions, State and the Market: Medicine in Context

Mike Saks is Research Professor in Health Policy at University Campus Suffolk, UK, and Visiting Professor at the University of Lincoln, UK, and the University of Toronto, Canada. He has published over a dozen books with top publishers on professions, health care and research methods.