2005
DOI: 10.1177/1075547005278350
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The Optometrist’s Rise to Power in the Health Care Market, or “It’s Optometric Physician, to You”

Abstract: Optometry and ophthalmology have often clashed over scope-of-practice issues. Optometry has won many of these battles and has significantly increased its professional power. While many researchers have analyzed methods of professional empowerment, even in eye care, this study specifically investigates how rhetorical strategies in a field’s professional texts might influence that empowerment. Optometry mobilized itself and elevated its professional status in part through a successful rhetorical campaign beginni… Show more

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“…As several medical sociologists have observed, these discourses of professional expertise are not simply rhetorical devices designed to convince outsiders of the profession's status. They are also important mechanisms which professions use to construct their own identity and socialise their members (Warnock 2005;Martin et al 2009). These discourses therefore affect the ways in which professions respond to external threats to their economic status or professional standing.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…As several medical sociologists have observed, these discourses of professional expertise are not simply rhetorical devices designed to convince outsiders of the profession's status. They are also important mechanisms which professions use to construct their own identity and socialise their members (Warnock 2005;Martin et al 2009). These discourses therefore affect the ways in which professions respond to external threats to their economic status or professional standing.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Much of this research explores the ways in which small business owners seek to resolve tensions between commercial imperatives and commitments to professional standards, formal governance or wider societal norms (Anderson and Smith 2007;Clarke and Holt 2010;Leitch and Harrison 2016). This research suggests that within professional sectors such as private healthcare, deeply embedded professional or occupational identities can have a strong influence on the ways in which practitioners respond to major alterations within their economic and organisational environment (Warnock 2005;Kovaleinen and Osterberg-Hogsted 2013).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We became increasingly interested in the work of optometrists, an occupation that ispar excellence -concerned with determining what others can see (vom Lehn, 2019b). We looked for available sociological research on the profession and found surprisingly few studies on the work of optometrists, though a little literature on the history and professionalization of optometry (Begun, 1979;Begun and Lippincott, 1980;Warnock, 2005). An important exception was a project undertaken by a team at London's South Bank University, where Shah and Evans had undertaken 'standard patient studies' (Shah et al, 2008(Shah et al, , 2009.…”
Section: The Work Of Optometrists: the Assessment And Diagnosis Of Vi...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Little sociological and organizational research is concerned with the work of optometrists, and few studies explore how optometrists conduct consultations with clients (Begun, 1979;Warnock, 2005). Textbooks provide us with some insights into the normative framework of optometric work, such as descriptions of tests and procedures that make up a consultation and instructions of how they should be conducted (Elliott, 2003;Harvey & Franklin, 2005).…”
Section: Video-recording Optometric Consultationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…DOI: https://doi.org/10.2525/irqr.2017.10.2.128. (Begun, 1979;Warnock, 2005). Their professional expertise enables optometrists to conduct procedures that allow them to claim knowledge of and make judgments about clients' visual experience, such as the clarity of their vision.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%