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Author Hoffman, Lily M.

Title The politics of knowledge : activist movements in medicine and planning / Lily M. Hoffman
Published Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, [1989]
©1989

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Description x, 290 pages ; 24 cm
Series SUNY series in the sociology of work
SUNY series in the sociology of work.
Contents Part 1: The professions and social change -- The professions and social movements -- Medicine, planning, and activist organizations -- The postwar context of activism -- Part 2: Strategies of change -- Delivering services -- Empowering people -- Transforming the workplace: professionals as workers -- Transforming society: professionals as a political vanguard -- Part 3: The politics of professional knowledge -- The political significance of activism -- The problem of professional knowledge
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-276)
Subject City planners -- United States.
Medical personnel -- United States.
Professions -- United States -- Social life and customs.
Professions -- Sociological aspects.
Professions -- United States -- Sociological aspects.
Social movements -- United States.
Social change.
Social reformers -- United States.
Social reformers.
LC no. 88017447
ISBN 0887069487
0887069495