Challenging medicine / edited by David Kelleher, Jonathan Gabe and Gareth Williams.

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

xxxiii, 189 pages ; 23 cm

2nd ed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From tribalism to corporatism : the continuing managerial challenge to medical dominance / David J. Hunter -- The challenge of nursing / Anne Witz and Ellen Annandale -- Litigation and the threat to medicine / Robert Dingwall and Pru Hobson-West -- Television and medicine : medical dominance or trial by media? / Michael Bury and Jonathan Gabe -- The alternatives to medicine / Mike Saks -- Self-help groups and their relationship to medicine / David Kelleher -- Lay knowledge and the privilege of experience / Gareth Williams and Jennie Popay -- Sex, gender and medicine : the case of the NHS / Lesley Doyal -- Attacking the foundations of modern medicine? : anti-vivisection protest and medical science / Mary Ann Elston.