This topical and authoritative book examines how the regulation of doctors has been modernised by the introduction of the quality assurance process medical revalidation. In doing so, it questions if there indeed is evidence to support the argument that revalidation serves the public interest by ensuring individual doctors are fit to practice.

Governing Medicine: From Gentleman’s Clubs to Risk-based Regulation; Fitness to Practice in the Workplace: Medical Revalidation; Fitness to Practice Panels: The Medical Practitioner Tribunal Service; Regulating for the Safer Doctor in the Risk Society: The Process is the Punishment...?

"Chamberlain provides an effective critique of revalidation. With the limited research and evidence available, he shows that not much has changed in the work of the General Medical Council and questions whether revalidation changes behavior. This should be required reading for those concerned with professional regulation in Britain and United States." Ruth Horowitz, Professor of Sociology, New York University "This book by a renowned expert on medical regulation provides a very well-informed analysis of the latest developments and issues in an area of great public importance in the UK." Professor Mike Saks, University Campus Suffolk