Abortion as a Medical Career Choice
Entrepreneurs, Community Physicians, and Others
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2545302 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael S Goldstein (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 211 |
| Publication date | 1984-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Health and Social Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1465 • E-ISSN: 2150-6000 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2136670 |
| OpenAlex | W2051961812 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 16 |
This is a study of physicians in Los Angeles who made the performance of abortions a major or sole component of their practice in the five years (1967-72) subsequent to the legalization of abortion in California. A semistructured interview was used to obtain data on the attitudes, values, and experiences of 42 such physicians. Four distinct career patterns (entrepreneurs, academics, workers, and community physicians) were found. As expected, the physicians tended to be specialists in OB-GYN, concerned about financial rewards, and influenced by past observation of negative consequences of illegal abortions. The major finding is the existence of a subgroup of physicians whose primary identity is businessman or entrepreneur; these fit into the pattern of outsider entrepreneurs. Elements of this pattern were also found among other types of physicians to varying degrees. There is a need to recognize entrepreneurial elements as part of the conceptualization of physicians and other professionals
Abortion · Conceptualization · Family medicine · Identity (music) · Legalization · Pregnancy · Psychiatry · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Medicine · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Reproductive Health and Contraception · Social Psychology
Abortion as a sociological case
The Sociology of the Professions
Making sense of the economics of abortion in the United States
Perspectives on fertility and its control
Recognizing medicalization and demedicalization
Creating and Controlling a Medical Market
Political Institutions and the Comparative Medicalization of Abortion
When Do Scientists Become Entrepreneurs? The Social Structural Antecedents of Commercial Activity in the Academic Life Sciences
Losing confidence in medicine in an era of medical expansion
Innovation
Medical Innovation
On the theory of social change
The New Medical-Industrial Complex
Profession of medicine
The Rise of Professionalism
The Health Care Industry in Advanced Capitalism
Entrepreneurship
Logistic problems of legal abortion
Abortion law reform and repeal
A Marxian interpretation of the growth and development of coronary care technology
Sociometric Location and Innovativeness
Hospital Adoption of Innovation
Professional Norms, Personal Attitudes, and Medical Practice
Control Structure, Values, and Innovation
Roles and Innovations in Medicine
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1984 - 2024 (41) |
| Highly cited | No |