Making sense of modern medical careers: The case of the UK's national health service

Sociology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 682-699

  Bolton, Sharon C ^a   Muzio, Daniel ^b   Boyd Quinn, Carol ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

doctors; modernizing medical careers; sociology of the professions; Tooke Report; training; vocabularies of motive

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051817839     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0038038511406598     Document Type: Article

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