Professions and Social Order

Auteur

Robert Dingwall is a consulting sociologist and part-time Professor of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University.

Natewindé Sawadogo is a founding member of the Laboratoire de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Science Sociales et Santé (LARISS), in the Department of Sociology at the University of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso).

Texte du rabat

This study asks a fundamental theoretical and empirical question--re-posing and re-contextualizing in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa: can markets generate the institutions on which they depend for their effectiveness, or do these require the active intervention of a strong, purposeful and democratic state?

Contenu

Introduction: The Market for Healing in Ouagadougou

1. Professions and the Social Order

2. Indigenous Healers and the Traditional State

3. The Medical Profession and the Colonial Power

4. Reconstructing the Public Governance Structure of Medical Practice

5. The Revival of the Private Governance Structure of Medical Practice

6. Healing Work and Civic Virtue

Conclusion: Professions, States and Markets