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Towards the Proletarianization of Physicians
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The thesis of this article is that in general where most other workers were quickly and easily proletarianized, physicians—through the use of a variety of tactics at the disposal of some elite groups—have, until now, been able to postpone or minimize this process in their own case. Now, as a result of the bureaucratization which is being forced on medical practice as a consequence of the logic of capitalist expansion, physicians are slowly being reduced to a proletarian function, and their formerly self-interested activities subordinated to the broader requirements of the capitalist control of highly profitable medical production.
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- Authors
- McKinlay, J. B., & Arches, J.
- Venue
- International Journal of Health Services
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1985-04
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 161-195
- ISSN
- 0020-7314 (ISSN-L)
- 1541-4469
- OpenAlex
- W2058810879
- Cited by
- 307
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 51.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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