Rethinking professional governance -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: Changing patterns of health professional governance -- The changing context of professional governance -- Researching the changing international governance in healthcare -- New health policies: remaking state-professions-citizens relationships -- Professional development: the reconfiguration of boundaries -- The structure of the book -- 1: Protecting patients: international trends in medical governance -- Introduction -- The theory and practice of self-regulation -- The changing context of medical practice -- Trends in professional governance -- Assessing professional competence -- Identifying and acting on poor performance -- Conclusion -- 2: Global markets and national pathways of medical re-regulation -- Introduction -- Conceptualising the institutional context of medical governance -- The analysis -- Institutional contexts of governing medical performance -- Pathways of governing medical performance -- The new governance of medical performance -- Comparing the old and new governance of medical performance -- Institutions and pathways of change revisited -- 3: Governing beyond markets and managerialism: professions as mediators -- Introduction -- Professions as mediators: linking modernisation and professionalisation -- Remodelling a corporatist health system: change and conservative forces -- Professionalism revisited: conservative and more inclusive elements -- Towards diverse professional projects and more plural regulatory frameworks -- 4: Trust relations and changing professional governance:theoretical challenges -- Introduction -- Definitions of trust -- Does trust matter? -- The context - the case of the 'new NHS' -- Policy discourse - trust, clinical governance and performance management -- Professional discourse and trust.

Theoretical framework for explaining trust relations in the 'new NHS' -- 5: Professionalism meets entrepreneurialism and managerialism -- Introduction -- Health sector reform, the professions and enterprise discourse -- The allied health professions -- Organisational change in the Australian health sector -- Entrepreneurial modes of conduct -- Entrepreneurial professionalism -- 6: Collaborative care and professional boundaries: maternity care in Canada -- Introduction -- Interprofessionalism and professional boundaries -- Methods and conceptual framework -- Providers of maternity care in Canada -- Micro-level influences on collaborative maternity care -- Meso-level influences on collaborative maternity care -- Macro-level influences on collaborative maternity care -- Discussion -- 7: Interprofessional relationships: doctors and nurses in Slovenia -- Introduction -- Different cultures of doctors and nurses: working together apart -- The case of Slovenia: crossroads of Central and Eastern Europe with some 'warm winds' in the South -- Attitudes towards interprofessional relations: the empirical investigation -- Variations on a theme: collaboration from the perspective of doctors and nurses -- The 'lived' interprofessional relationships -- Conclusion -- 8: Educating generalists: flexibility and identity in auxiliary nursing in Finland -- Introduction -- Power resources and the dynamics of professionalism -- Theorising transitions in the discourse of professionalism -- The analytical approach -- The flexibilisation of practical nursing in institutions and policy -- Occupational identity and professionalism in the workplace -- Flexibility and professionalism -- 9: Culture matters: integration of folk medicine into healthcare in Russia -- Introduction -- Integration of diverse professional cultures: global dimensions and local conditions.

The healthcare system in Russia: from monopoly to inclusion? -- Pathways to integration: flexible professional strategies and the significance of culture -- Culture, integration and professional power relations -- 10: Policy dynamics: marginal groups in the healthcare division of labour in the UK -- Introduction -- The case of health support work -- The case of complementary and alternative medicine -- Conclusion -- 11: Free riders in a fluid system: gender traps in agency nursing in Norway -- Introduction -- Theories on flexibility and mobility -- Gendering the concept of flexibility -- The Norwegian context -- The empirical study: motives and experiences of agency nurses -- Flexible work in times of new public management: new boundaries -- 12: From health to tourism: being mobile in the wellness sector in Hungary -- Introduction -- Professionals, 'entreployees' and careers - theoretical connections -- Researching an 'unsettled' workforce in a free-floating sector: theory and method -- Professionalisation and career paths at the crossroads of health and tourism: empirical findings -- A new professionalism in the making? -- 13: Migration and occupational integration: foreign health professionals in Portugal -- Introduction -- Migration of nurses and doctors: challenges to professional governance and integration -- Foreign human resources in Portugal's National Health Service -- Integration of foreign health professionals - snakes and ladders -- Conclusion -- 14: Professionals in transition:physicians' careers, migration and gender in Lithuania -- Introduction -- The Lithuanian healthcare system in the post-Soviet era -- Methods and material -- Gendered attitudes towards the possibilities of emigration -- Accounts of migration: material and professional considerations -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Health policy and workforce dynamics: the future.

Changing policies, changing professions: the nation state as a navigator -- Professional collaboration: policy goal and policy challenge -- Reconfiguring a mobile health workforce: de-regulation and re-regulation -- Governing a diverse international healthcare workforce -- Index.