The development of the specialism of emergency medicine

Media and cultural influences

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4884035
AutoresStephen Timmon (0000-0002-3731-1350, School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK), Stuart Nairn (0000-0002-6487-7456, School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Royal Derby Hospital, Derby, UK)
Año2015
Volumen19
Número1
Páginas3-16
Fecha de publicación2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHealth An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1363-4593 • E-ISSN: 1461-7196
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1363459314530737
PMID24821928
OpenAlexW2148859868
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas40

In this article we analyse, via a critical review of the literature, the development of a relatively new medical specialism in the United Kingdom, that of emergency medicine. Despite the high media profile of emergency care, it is a low-status specialism within UK medicine. The creation of a specialist College in 2008 means that, symbolically, recognition as a full specialism has now been achieved. In this article, we will show, using a sociology of professions approach, how emergency medicine defined itself as a specialism, and sought to carve out a distinctive jurisdiction. While, in the context of the UK National Health Service, the state was clearly an important factor in the development of this profession, we wish to develop the analysis further than is usual in the sociology of professions. We will analyse the wider cultural context for the development of this specialism, which has benefited from its high profile in the media, through both fictional and documentary sources

Jurisdiction · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Emergency and Acute Care Studies · Healthcare Quality and Management · Healthcare Systems and Challenges · History · Law · Medicine