... content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2017 Qatar Middle East Global South professions professional dissonance Tim Snyder was working late in his office one evening when the phone rang unexpectedly...

...Nitsan Chorev; Andrew Schrank In spite of the evident importance of professionals and the professions in the Global South, the sociological literature on the subject is almost entirely confined to the developed market economies. In turn, the North American literature on development has not filled...

..., whereas professional orientation and concerns with the status of the profession had limited effect. Taken together, the findings from this exploratory study suggest that although physicians in China's public hospitals are dependent on their organizations, they retain considerable discretion...