Disabling Professions

by Ivan Illich, Irving K Zola, John McKnight

Overview

Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays challenges the power and the mystique of the modern professions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714525105
Publisher:	Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Publication date:	07/01/2000
Series:	Ideas in Progress Series , #1
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	832,274
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.30(d)