| Professional dynamics and the changing nature of medical work FW Hafferty, DW Light Journal of health and social behavior, 132-153, 1995 | 459 | 1995 |
| Uncertainty and control in professional training D Light Jr Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 310-322, 1979 | 372 | 1979 |
| Introduction: The structure of the academic professions D Light Sociology of Education 47 (1), 2-28, 1974 | 365 | 1974 |
| Sociología D Light, S Keller, C Calhoun McGraw-Hill, 1991 | 363 | 1991 |
| Pharmaceutical research and development: what do we get for all that money? DW Light, JR Lexchin Bmj 345, 2012 | 345 | 2012 |
| Becoming psychiatrists: The professional transformation of self D Light | 310 | 1980 |
| Demythologizing the high costs of pharmaceutical research DW Light, R Warburton BioSocieties 6, 34-50, 2011 | 309 | 2011 |
| The changing character of the medical profession: a theoretical overview D Light, S Levine Management of Healthcare, 301-324, 2019 | 303 | 2019 |
| Benchmarks of fairness for health care reform N Daniels, D Light, RL Caplan Oxford University Press, USA, 1996 | 282 | 1996 |
| Countervailing powers D Light Health professions and the state in Europe, 25-41, 1995 | 281 | 1995 |
| Institutional corruption of pharmaceuticals and the myth of safe and effective drugs DW Light, J Lexchin, JJ Darrow Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 41 (3), 590-600, 2013 | 259 | 2013 |
| Uncertainty and professional work: perceptions of physicians in clinical practice MS Gerrity, JAL Earp, RF DeVellis, DW Light American Journal of Sociology 97 (4), 1022-1051, 1992 | 250 | 1992 |
| The medical profession and organizational change: from professional dominance to countervailing power DW Light Handbook of medical sociology 5, 201-216, 2000 | 228 | 2000 |
| The practice and ethics of risk-rated health insurance DW Light Jama 267 (18), 2503-2508, 1992 | 208 | 1992 |
| COUNTERVAILING POWER: THE CHANGING CHARACTER OF 19 THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN THE UNITED STATES DW Light The sociology of health and illness, 215, 2005 | 188 | 2005 |
| Surface data and deep structure: Observing the organization of professional training D Light Administrative Science Quarterly 24 (4), 551-559, 1979 | 163 | 1979 |
| From managed competition to managed cooperation: theory and lessons from the British experience DW Light The Milbank Quarterly 75 (3), 297-341, 1997 | 157 | 1997 |
| High cancer drug prices in the United States: reasons and proposed solutions H Kantarjian, D Steensma, J Rius Sanjuan, A Elshaug, D Light Journal of oncology practice 10 (4), e208-e211, 2014 | 156 | 2014 |
| Life on the edge: immigrants confront the American health system A Portes, P Fernández-Kelly, D Light Health Care and Immigration, 4-22, 2013 | 156 | 2013 |
| Health-care professions, markets and countervailing powers DW Light Handbook of medical sociology 6 (1), 270-289, 2010 | 153 | 2010 |
Antonio MaturoProfessore di sociologia, Università di BolognaVerified email at unibo.it
