Doctors and Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2205261 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William A Glaser (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1960 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 230-245 |
| Publication date | 1960-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/222875 |
| OpenAlex | W2054859553 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Published and unpublished studies are reviewed to derive generalizations and hypotheses about the political attitudes and behavior of the individual members of the American medical profession. Although doctors may occasionally participate in local government in medical or other non-partisan capacities, they rarely abandon medicine for lay governmental careers, and their participation in party politics is limited. In some respects doctors share the conservative values of other American social elites, but in others they may differ and may be predisposed to a peculiarly professional belief system. Doctors' distinctive orientations toward politics follow from the characteristics typical of a very successful social elite and of a highly developed profession whose special tasks, knowledge, methods, and work routines are very different from the ordinary work of government
Elite · Government (linguistics) · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Work (physics) · Academic Freedom and Politics · Law · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1962 - 2004 (43) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |