Managing Medical Authority: How Doctors Compete for Status and Create Knowledge

How the authority of medicine is continuously shaped by relationships among physicians, industry, colleagues, and organizations

Exploring how the authority of medicine is controlled, negotiated, and organized, Managing Medical Authority asks: How is knowledge shared throughout the profession? Who makes decisions when your heart malfunctions—physicians, hospital administrators, or private companies who sell pacemakers? How do physicians gain and keep their influence? Arguing that medicine’s ...