Professional men, professional women : the European professions from the nineteenth century until today / Maria Malatesta ; translated by Adrian Belton.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [164]-180) and index.

Machine generated contents note: What Professions, What Countries? -- Comparing and Deconstructing Histories -- Discontinuity and Asymmetry -- Transition Costs -- State -- Crises -- The New Transition -- Legal Fields and Elites -- Judges -- Notaries -- The Forensic Kaleidoscope -- Bar Autonomy and State Regulation -- Great Britain -- France -- Italy -- Germany -- Great Britain -- The Assault on the Corporations -- The Birth of the General Practitioner -- The Canon of Ambiguity -- The National Health Service -- Thatcher and the Doctors -- France -- Monopoly and Unification of the Profession -- The Liberal Canon and Socialized Medicine -- Hospital-centrism -- The Ordre des Medecins from Vichy to Mitterand -- The Neo-liberal Doctors -- Italy -- The Monopoly of the University -- Professionalization, Local Authorities and the State -- From Mutual Benefit Societies to the National Health Service -- Doctors and Devolution -- Germany -- Reform of Academic Studies and the Birth of the Doctor -- Liberalization -- Doctors and Health Insurance -- Nazification -- The Balance of Medical Power -- France -- Technical Education and Training the State's Elites -- The Myth of the Polytechniciens -- Title and Identity -- Great Britain -- Experience versus Academy -- A Faded Myth -- Germany -- Profession, Industry and State -- Engineers and Nazism -- Two Engineers for the New Germany -- Italy -- An Academic Vocation -- The Construction of an Elite -- Fascism, Consensus, Employment -- The Double Engineer -- Higher Commercial Education -- Accountants and Auditors -- Great Britain -- France -- Germany -- Italy -- Entering a Gentlemen's Club -- An Identikit of the Women Pioneers -- The Conquest of Higher Education -- The Health Professions -- Women Accountants -- Women Lawyers -- Women Professions and Citizenship: An Asymmetrical Pattern -- The Professional Restoration: An Ambiguous Pattern -- What Feminization?.