The Allied Health Professions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Nancarrow ◽  
Alan Borthwick
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Allied Health ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Health Occupations ◽  
Allied Health Professions ◽  
Professional Goals ◽  
Sociology Of Health

Drawing on case studies from optometrists, physiotherapists, pedorthists and allied health assistants, this book offers an innovative comparison of allied health occupations in Australia and Britain. Adopting a theory of the sociology of health professions, it explores how the allied health professions can achieve their professional goals.

The Allied Health Professions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Nancarrow ◽  
Alan Borthwick
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Allied Health ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Allied Health Professions ◽  
Sociology Of Health

The allied health professions have gained legitimacy through the pursuit of research evidence and the standardisation of practice. Yet there remains very little analysis or understanding of these professions. Adopting theory from the sociology of health professions, this book explores the sociological, economic, political and philosophical pressures that have shaped the professions. Drawing on case studies and examples from occupations including optometrists, occupational therapists and physiotherapists to emerging vocations, including pedorthists and allied health assistants, the book offers an innovative comparison of allied health professions in Australia and Britain. By telling the story of their past, the book prepares the allied health professions for a new and different future.

The Division of Laborers: Allied Health Professions

1973 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol A. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Allied Health ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Health Occupations ◽  
Allied Health Professions ◽  
Professional Societies ◽  
And Training ◽  
Radiology And Pathology

As health services have become hospital-centered, many specialized health occupations have been created. The author maintains that these allied health occupations conflict with the medical profession for occupational territory, and that the development of these subordinate occupations has been controlled by the medical profession to its own benefit. This control is achieved through domination of professional societies, education and training, industrial rules and regulations, and government licenses. Detailed examples of the process of control are provided from the fields of radiology and pathology.

The interface of health support workers with the allied health professions

2020 ◽  
pp. 101-124
Author(s):  
Susan Nancarrow
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Health Workforce ◽  
Allied Health ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Allied Health Professions ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Health Support ◽  
Professional Project

The chapter begins by describing the allied health workforce, before exploring from a neo-Weberian perspective the development of the support workforce associated with the allied health professions with a focus on the United Kingdom and Australia – not least by considering the reasons for introducing a support workforce, the contexts in which it is used, the negotiation of its boundaries, and the challenges and opportunities for allied health professions and its support workforce. In particular, this chapter claims that the heterogeneous allied health support workforce has evolved through two models, with different types of workers. The first is the profession-led model, which supports the neo-Weberian idea of the professional project, in which allied health professions developed support roles to expand and maintain their market monopoly and autonomy in niche areas. The second is the managerial model, which instead privileges the ‘patient-centred’ goals of increasing role flexibility by recognising and rewarding individuals’ skills and competencies and working across traditional professional and organisational boundaries. The chapter finally outlines some of the key challenges to allied health support workforce going forward.

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