Medici e manager. Verso un nuovo professionalismo?

Abstract

The blend of doctors’ and managers’ tasks is the result of a conflict that lasted for several decades and have not yet reached its end. However today, this fusion is proposed as evidence, as long as becoming a unions claims. What has happened in this time frame, and how it can explain the current figure of doctor with managerial skills as well professional skills? We are facing a new medical professionalism? To understand these transformations is necessary to reconstruct the path that, in Italy, led the interdependence between current professional knowledge and knowledge management, trying to reason about the theoretical tools available (or in costruction) today to read the emerging configurations of health care.