Decline vs. retention of medical power through restratification: an examination of the Ontario case

Abstract Abstract Though some argue that medical power is declining, others disagree. In particular, Freidson assets that medicine is being restratified with medical elites retaining control over health care though practitioners are losing their individual autonomy to these elites. We use the case of state‐medicine relationships in Ontario to examine the restratification thesis. Our findings indicate that the state partially controls medicine …