Books written by Robert Dingwall

Qualitative Research Methods for Nurses

... M. and Robson, K. (2000) Focus Groups in Social Research. London: Sage. Bolton, R. (1995) 'Tricks, friends and lovers: erotic encounters in the field', in D. Kulick and M.Willson (eds), Taboo: Sex, Identity and Erotic Subjectivity ...
Essays on Professions

This volume assembles the best of these writings in one single accessible place. The ten essays are republished in their original form, each bearing the traces of the time and place it was written.
Aspects of Illness

With critical observations on past approaches to this issue and the proposal of alternative lines of inquiry, this book is concerned with the attempts made by sociologists (and to a lesser extent, doctors) to account for patterns of social ...
An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing

Most of the work has been scattered in monographs, journals and edited collections.
Qualitative Methods and Health Policy Research

The devotion to truth as a regulative ideal is an essential difference between science and propaganda. This work is a unique and innovative defense of scientific method.
The Protection of Children (Second Edition): State Intervention and Family Life

Famous for coining the much-used (and often misunderstood or misused) phrase "the rule of optimism," this book is updated with an extensive Postscript from 1995 and a new, 2014 Preface that explains the uneven history of the optimism ...
The Protection of Children: State Intervention and Family Life

This book is based on the most extensive investigation of child abuse and neglect ever carried out in Great Britain.
The Social Organisation of Health Visitor Training

This book has not been easily available in print for many years, but it has long been regarded as an important contribution to the study of professional socialization.
The Sociology of the Professions: Lawyers, Doctors and Others

" The volume retains a comprehensive bibliography in law, medicine, and beyond. - Reviews of the original edition include: "Dingwall and Lewis have provided an exemplar of what an edited volume can be.
Qualitative Methods and Health Policy Research

The devotion to truth as a regulative ideal is an essential difference between science and propaganda. This work is a unique and innovative defense of scientific method.
Sociology and Social Research (RLE Social Theory)

This is the message of the authors of this book in this reassessment of the evolution and present state of British sociology.
The Ceremonial Order of the Clinic: Parents, Doctors and Medical Bureaucracies

Strong used this work to systematize the often chaotic ideas of Erving Goffman, to explore the connections between micro and macro analysis in sociology and to reflect on the nature of medical practice in modern liberal societies.
Essays on Professions

Robert Dingwall characterizes the futility of the trait approach with characteristic aplomb: 'The checklists were regularly criticized for their theoretical incoherence, their special pleading, their lack of discrimination and so on but ...
The Reform of Child Care Law: A Practical Guide to the Children Act 1989

Children Act 1989 introduced the most radical changes to child care law for a generation. Eekelaar and Dingwall provide a concise, practical guide to the legislation for all professionals practising in this area.
Health Care and Health Knowledge

Originally published in 1977, Health Care and Health Knowledge presents some of the best new work being done in the field of medical sociology.
An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing

Combining the skills of a social historian, a sociologist and a graduate nurse, this book traces the history of nursing from 1800 and speculates on the future of nursing in the year 2000.
The Reform of Child Care Law: A Practical Guide to the Children Act 1989

A Practical Guide to the Children Act 1989 John Eekelaar, Robert Dingwall. The. reform. of. child. care. law. The Children Act 1989 introduces the most radical changes in child care law for a generation and will have significant effects ...
An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing

Combining the skills of a social historian, a sociologist and a graduate nurse, this book traces the history of nursing from 1800 and speculates on the future of nursing in the year 2000.
Professions and Social Order: Markets, States and Healers in Burkina Faso

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 ...
Care Or Control?: Decision-making in the Care of Children Thought to Have Been Abused Or Neglected. A Summary of the...

Care Or Control?: Decision-making in the Care of Children Thought to Have Been Abused Or Neglected. A Summary of the...