Chiropody/Podiatry: Interprovincial Differences in Profession Formation.
The regulation of foot health care professionals varies across provinces in Canada. In Ontario, the regulated health profession is chiropody. Chiropodists are foot specialists with a limited scope of practice. In contrast, British Columbia and five other provinces regulate podiatrists, who are highly trained foot physicians with an extensive scope of practice. This article explores the history of chiropody/podiatry in Ontario and British Columbia from the early 1900s through the 1980s in order to understand how professional development in this field took such divergent paths within Canada. In so doing, it not only sheds light on a health practice that has received little scholarly attention, but it also highlights the centrality of inter-professional conflict and state actors' agendas to professional regulatory outcomes.
Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario.
Tracey L
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Adams
D001955:British Columbia; D006281:Health Occupations; D049673:History, 20th Century; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009864:Ontario; D011032:Podiatry / Q000266:history*; D013038:Specialization
British Columbia; Colombie-Britannique; Comité des arts thérapeutiques; Committee on the Healing Arts; Ontario; chiropody; ecology of professions; femmes et médecine; foot care; medical professionalization; medicine and warfare; médecine et guerre; podiatry; podologie; professionnalisation médicale; regulation of health care professions; réglementation des professions médicales; soins des pieds; women and medicine; écologie des professions