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KMID : 0904520190510010081
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Health and Medical Sociology
2019 Volume.51 No. 1 p.81 ~ p.109
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Where is the pharmacy professionalism going in the system of professions in Korea?
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Byeon Jin-Ok
Lee Hye-Jae
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to examine the collective practice of community pharmacies since the medical reform of the separation of drug prescribing and dispensing in terms of jurisdiction that compete with other professions. First of all, as a theoretical background, the classical professionalism theory and Abbott's theory of jurisdiction, were outlined. These background explained the topography of community pharmacy within system of profession and implications for their collective practices in an interdependent system of profession. We briefly reviewed some issues of the division of medicine related to pharmacy professionalism and analyzed the prescription concentration of community pharmacies after the separation of drug prescribing and dispensing. And also we identified and presented the efforts of the pharmacist in order to improve professionalism in response to these external changes. Finally, through analysis of the humanitarian implications of current pharmacies’ professional practices, we tried to suggest some strategies for the future. while pharmacy pharmacists have confined their social objects to “drugs”, pharmacists' social tasks need not to limit their task into “medicine.” Rather, pharmacists should further consolidate the perception that their social target is medicine, and use it as the basis for the abstraction that constitutes the public health problems.
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KEYWORD
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community pharmacy, professionalism, Jurisdiction
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