Health care is a key arena of the modernisation of welfare states. Tighter resources and a changing spectrum of diseases, coupled with new modes of citizenship and demands for public safety, challenge the health care systems throughout the Western world. This book sets out to examine new perspectives on the governance of health care and to highlight the role of the professions as mediators between the state and its citizens. It brings the interdependence and tensions between the health professions, the state and public interest into focus that release ongoing dynamics into the health system. The emerging patterns of a new professionalism in late modernity and interprofessional dynamics lie at.
