The Iron Cage and the Gaze: Interpreting Medical Control in the English Health System

This paper seeks to determine the value of theoretical ideal-types of medical control. Whilst ideal types (such as the iron cage and gaze) need revision in their application to medical settings, they remain useful in describing and explaining patterns of control and autonomy in the medical professi...

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Main Author: Mark Exworthy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences 2015-05-01
Series:Professions and Professionalism
Online Access:https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/pp/article/view/944