Originally published in 1978, Health and the Division of Labour examines problems and tensions experienced in health work.

Introduction 1. The Futures of Professionalisation 2. The Role of the Medical Profession in a Non-Democratic Country: The Case of Spain 3. Home Dialysis and Sociomedical Policy 4. Responsibility in General Practice 5. Women in the Medical Profession: Whose Problem? 6. The Division of Labour among the Mental Health Professions - a Negotiated or an Imposed Order? 7. The New Managerialism and Professionalism in Nursing 8. Management, the Professions and the Unions: A Social Analysis of Change in the National Health Service 9. Misapplied Cross-Cultural Research: A Case Study of an Ill-Fated Family Planning Research Project Contributors

Margaret Stacey, Margaret Reid, Christian Heath, Robert Dingwall