In this fas­ci­nat­ing and con­tro­ver­sial col­lec­tion of essays Ivan Illich, Irv­ing K Zola, John McK­night, Jonathan Caplan and Harley Shaiken chal­lenge the pow­er and mys­tery of pro­fes­sions. Why do we put so much resource into med­i­cine, edu­ca­tion and the law with so lit­tle appar­ent result? Why do we hold the pro­fes­sions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monop­o­lies? By ana­lyz­ing these ques­tions and putting for­ward rad­i­cal answers, the authors make an invalu­able con­tri­bu­tion to the pub­lic debate on the pow­er of professions.

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