Nurses and doctors at work: rethinking professional boundaries

Abstract

In this book Wicks constructs a complex and nuanced picture of nurse-doctor relations which moves well beyond the usual Marxist-style analyses, providing a major contribution to the literature on the sociology of nursing. Acknowledgments – Abbreviations and rankings – Introduction – 1. A new framework – 2. Nurses making nursing – 3. Pleasure – 4. Power – 5. Conflict – 6. Skill – 7. Healing – 8. Implications and possibilities – Notes – Bibliography – Index.