TY  - BOOK
AU  - Horowitz,Ruth
TI  - In the public interest: medical licensing and the disciplinary process 
T2  - Critical issues in health and medicine
SN  - 9780813554280
AV  - K4366 .I584 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Physicians
KW  - Licenses
KW  - United States
KW  - Clinical competence
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - Licensure, Medical
KW  - Clinical Competence
KW  - Government Regulation
KW  - Professional Autonomy
KW  - Professional Review Organizations
KW  - Public Opinion
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Public member, researcher, and public sociologist --; How licensure became a medical institution --; The Federal bureaucracy starts a public dialogue --; The state, the media, and the shaping of public opinion --; Rhetorics of law, medicine, and public interest shape board work --; Medical and legal discourses in investigatory committees --; Hearing and sanction deliberations : transparency and fact construction issues --; Democratic deliberation and public interest; 2; b
N2  - In the Public Interest investigates the mechanisms that democratic societies have used to certify that those working as licensed doctors are properly trained and supervised as they deliver critical services to the public. It analyzes the workings of the crucial public institutions charged with maintaining the safety and legitimacy of the U.S. medical profession and provides prescriptive measures, addresses problems in need of reform, and suggests new procedures, resource allocation, and educat
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