A Sociology of medical practice / edited by Caroline Cox & Adrianne Mead.

Includes bibliographical references (page 20) and index.

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