Disabling Professions

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.

• Author
• Ivan Illich, Irving Kenneth Zola, John McKnight, Jonathan Caplan, Harley Shaiken

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 128

• Publisher
• Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780714525105

• Genres
• philosophy, sociology, politics, theory

• Release date
• 2000