A Sociology of medical practice /
edited by Caroline Cox & Adrianne Mead.
- London : Collier-Macmillan, 1975.
- x, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (page 20) and index.
Culture and symptoms : an analysis of patients' presenting complaints / Values, social class and community health services / Socialization, command of performance and mental illness / A social-psychological theory of neurosis / Training for uncertainty / Professional socialization as subjective experience : the process of doctrinal conversion among student nurses / Practice orientations among general practitioners in England and Wales / The doctors' dilemma -- a sociological viewpoint / The British National Health Service : professional determinants of administrative structure / Medicine as an institution of social control / The inverse care law / 'Disability' and rehabilitation : some questions of definition / Therapeutic behaviour, hospital culture and communication / The inmate world / Patterns of dying / Conflict and conflict resolution in doctor / patient interactions / Dilemmas in the doctor / patient relationship / Differences between patients' and doctors' interpretations of some common medical terms / Margot Jefferys -- Caroline Cox and Adrianne Mead -- Irving Kenneth Zola -- Nancy Milio -- Ernest Becker -- Arnold M. Rose -- Ren C. Fox -- Fred Davis -- David Mechanic -- Margot Jefferys -- Derek G. Gill -- Irving Kenneth Zola -- Julian Tudor Hart -- Mildred Blaxter -- Ewart Th. Cassee -- Erving Goffman -- Anselm L. Strauss & Barney G. Glaser -- Michael J. Bloor & Gordon W. Horobin -- Eliot Freidson -- Charles Murray Boyle. Foreword / Introduction / Part I. The sociology of illness and illness behaviour -- Part II. The sociology of the healing professions -- Part III. The sociology of the health service organizations -- Part IV. The sociology of the doctor / patient relationship --