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For any researcher interested in the functioning of a profession, a series of chapters may be easier to ponder than the series of consequences arising from the profession’s behaviour. As a response, I have attempted to depict via a rare analysis a vivid picture of the nursing world in Chile and the continuing sociopolitical transformation of its profession-building process. The interaction between professions as interest groups in the wider socio-economic order has been the main frame. In this process, different sociological concepts may be useful in approaching this and other professions – the notions of profession, class identity, gender relations, interprofessional conflicts, patterns of power, organisational dynamics, and so on. How, then, can the behaviour of nursing be described in this particular landscape of relations?
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Ayala, R.A. (2020). Nurses in the New Landscape of Interprofessional Relations. In: Towards a Sociology of Nursing. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8887-3_8
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