Front Cover
Half-title
Series
The Allied Health Professions: A Sociological Perspective
Copyright information
Table of contents
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Editors' overvies
Introduction
The allied health professions
The sociology of the professions: theoretical insights
Taxonomic approach (trait and functionalist perspectives)
Professional power perspectives: asking a different question
Marxist theory and the professions
Professional knowledge: indeterminacy and technicality
Foucault, disciplinary power and 'the gaze'

Neo-Weberian perspectives
Social closure
Professional dominance
The professional project
Bourdieu: symbolic capital and symbolic violence
Book overview
One The allied health collective
What are the 'allied health professions'?
The nature of allied health profession work
The international context of allied health
Allied health professions: migration and the global workforce
The Australian and UK health and social care contexts
The evolution of the allied health professions
The 'pre-professions'
Medical registration
The medico-bureaucratic alliance

State control over healthcare
Two Diversity in the allied health professions
Gender
Choice of profession
Interprofessional diversity
Ethnicity
Conclusion
Three The established allied health professions
Optometry: allied to medicine or allied to itself? A case of splendid isolation
Optometry: allied to itself or allied to others?
Radiography: allied to medicine or dependent upon it?
Radiography and the independent prescribing of medicines: divided and conquered?
Discussion
Four Emerging allied health professions
The professionalisation of pedorthics

The professionalisation of operating department practitioners
The professional pathway of developmental educators in the disability field
Discussion
Five The support workforce within the allied health division of labour
The growth of support workers in allied health
The allied health division of labour
Occupational therapy assistant practitioners
Podiatry assistants
Discussion
Six Specialisation in allied health
Podiatry and foot surgery: from aspiration to regulation
See one, do one: the origins of podiatric surgery in the UK

From the margins to mainstream: establishing podiatric surgery in the National Health Service
Professional titles as 'symbolic capital'
Allied health professions as prescribers of medicines
From zero to hero: the shift towards physiotherapy, podiatry and radiography prescribing
Allied health prescribing: current issues
Seven Post-professionalism and allied health
Interprofessional role boundaries of diabetes educators
Rural allied health generalist model
Discussion
Index
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