Dixon-Woods, Mary; Yeung, Karen; Bosk, Charles L. - In: Social Science & Medicine 73 (2011) 10, pp. 1452-1459
This article identifies the role played by a series of medical scandals in the UK, occurring from the mid-1990s onwards, in ending a collegial model of self-regulation of the medical profession that had endured for 150 years. The state’s original motive in endorsing professional...