Ellen Kuhlmann is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath.Mike Saks is Pro Vice Chancellor and Professor of Health and Community Studies at the University of Lincoln.

"With a fresh approach to developments in the international context, Rethinking Professional Governance injects new energy into important debates. It will be of great interest to researchers, policy makers and health professionals." Dr Ellen Annandale, Department of Sociology, University of Leicester, and Editor-in-Chief of Social Science and Medicine

• Introduction: Changing patterns of health professional governance ~ Ellen Kuhlmann and Mike Saks; Part One: New directions in the governance of healthcare: Protecting patients: international trends in medical governance ~ Judith Allsop and Kathryn Jones; Global markets and national pathways of medical re-regulation ~ Viola Burau and Karsten Vrangbæk; Governing beyond markets and managerialism: professions as mediators ~ Ellen Kuhlmann; Trust relations and changing professional governance: theoretical challenges ~ Michael Calnan and Rosemary Rowe; Professionalism meets entrepreneurialism and managerialism ~ Rosalie A.Boyce; Part Two: Drivers and barriers to integration: health policies and professional development: Collaborative care and professional boundaries: maternity care in Canada ~ Ivy Lynn Bourgeault and Elizabeth Darling; Interprofessional relationships: nurses and doctors in Slovenia ~ Majda Pahor; Educating generalists: auxiliary nursing and professional identity in Finland ~ Sirpa Wrede; Culture matters: integration of folk medicine into healthcare in Russia ~ Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova and Pavel Romanov; Policy dynamics: marginal groups in the healthcare division of labour in the UK ~ Mike Saks; Part Three: Workforce dynamics: gender, migration and mobility: Free riders in a fluid system: gender traps in the nursing profession in Norway ~ Rannveig Dahle and Gry Skogheim; From health to tourism: being mobile in the wellness sector in Hungary ~ Katalin Formadi; Migration and occupational integration: foreign health professionals in Portugal ~ Joana Sousa Ribeiro; Professionals in transition: physicians' careers, migration and gender in Lithuania ~ Elianne Riska and Aurelija Novelskaite; Conclusion: Health policy and workforce dynamics: the future ~ Ellen Kuhlmann and Mike Saks.

Ellen Kuhlmann is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath.Mike Saks is Pro Vice Chancellor and Professor of Health and Community Studies at the University of Lincoln.

"With a fresh approach to developments in the international context, Rethinking Professional Governance injects new energy into important debates. It will be of great interest to researchers, policy makers and health professionals." Dr Ellen Annandale, Department of Sociology, University of Leicester, and Editor-in-Chief of Social Science and Medicine

• Introduction: Changing patterns of health professional governance ~ Ellen Kuhlmann and Mike Saks; Part One: New directions in the governance of healthcare: Protecting patients: international trends in medical governance ~ Judith Allsop and Kathryn Jones; Global markets and national pathways of medical re-regulation ~ Viola Burau and Karsten Vrangbæk; Governing beyond markets and managerialism: professions as mediators ~ Ellen Kuhlmann; Trust relations and changing professional governance: theoretical challenges ~ Michael Calnan and Rosemary Rowe; Professionalism meets entrepreneurialism and managerialism ~ Rosalie A.Boyce; Part Two: Drivers and barriers to integration: health policies and professional development: Collaborative care and professional boundaries: maternity care in Canada ~ Ivy Lynn Bourgeault and Elizabeth Darling; Interprofessional relationships: nurses and doctors in Slovenia ~ Majda Pahor; Educating generalists: auxiliary nursing and professional identity in Finland ~ Sirpa Wrede; Culture matters: integration of folk medicine into healthcare in Russia ~ Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova and Pavel Romanov; Policy dynamics: marginal groups in the healthcare division of labour in the UK ~ Mike Saks; Part Three: Workforce dynamics: gender, migration and mobility: Free riders in a fluid system: gender traps in the nursing profession in Norway ~ Rannveig Dahle and Gry Skogheim; From health to tourism: being mobile in the wellness sector in Hungary ~ Katalin Formadi; Migration and occupational integration: foreign health professionals in Portugal ~ Joana Sousa Ribeiro; Professionals in transition: physicians' careers, migration and gender in Lithuania ~ Elianne Riska and Aurelija Novelskaite; Conclusion: Health policy and workforce dynamics: the future ~ Ellen Kuhlmann and Mike Saks.

Ellen Kuhlmann is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath.Mike Saks is Pro Vice Chancellor and Professor of Health and Community Studies at the University of Lincoln.

"With a fresh approach to developments in the international context, Rethinking Professional Governance injects new energy into important debates. It will be of great interest to researchers, policy makers and health professionals." Dr Ellen Annandale, Department of Sociology, University of Leicester, and Editor-in-Chief of Social Science and Medicine

• Introduction: Changing patterns of health professional governance ~ Ellen Kuhlmann and Mike Saks; Part One: New directions in the governance of healthcare: Protecting patients: international trends in medical governance ~ Judith Allsop and Kathryn Jones; Global markets and national pathways of medical re-regulation ~ Viola Burau and Karsten Vrangbæk; Governing beyond markets and managerialism: professions as mediators ~ Ellen Kuhlmann; Trust relations and changing professional governance: theoretical challenges ~ Michael Calnan and Rosemary Rowe; Professionalism meets entrepreneurialism and managerialism ~ Rosalie A.Boyce; Part Two: Drivers and barriers to integration: health policies and professional development: Collaborative care and professional boundaries: maternity care in Canada ~ Ivy Lynn Bourgeault and Elizabeth Darling; Interprofessional relationships: nurses and doctors in Slovenia ~ Majda Pahor; Educating generalists: auxiliary nursing and professional identity in Finland ~ Sirpa Wrede; Culture matters: integration of folk medicine into healthcare in Russia ~ Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova and Pavel Romanov; Policy dynamics: marginal groups in the healthcare division of labour in the UK ~ Mike Saks; Part Three: Workforce dynamics: gender, migration and mobility: Free riders in a fluid system: gender traps in the nursing profession in Norway ~ Rannveig Dahle and Gry Skogheim; From health to tourism: being mobile in the wellness sector in Hungary ~ Katalin Formadi; Migration and occupational integration: foreign health professionals in Portugal ~ Joana Sousa Ribeiro; Professionals in transition: physicians' careers, migration and gender in Lithuania ~ Elianne Riska and Aurelija Novelskaite; Conclusion: Health policy and workforce dynamics: the future ~ Ellen Kuhlmann and Mike Saks.