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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION: Substantive Issues in Medical Sociology -- The Concept of Disease -- Disease as Ideology -- Social Elements in the Distribution and Etiology of Illness -- Social Class Influences on the Responses to Illness -- The Organization of Responses to Illness -- The Physician -- Other "Professionals" in Medicine -- The Sociology of the Hospital -- The Professional in a Bureaucratic Setting -- The Motivation of tbe Nonprofessional Worker -- The Organization as a C onmnmity -- Health and the Community -- Medical Care-The Focus of the Field -- NOTES -- Part 1. A Sociological Approach to Medical Care -- 1. The Present State of Medical Sociology -- The Present Position of the Sociology of Medicine -- The Underdevelop1nent of a Sociology of Medicine -- Barriers to a Sociology of Medicine -- Prime Tasks for a Sociology of A1 edicine -- Toward a Sociology of Medical Care -- NOTES -- 2. A Structural Approach to Medical Care, -- Environment and Survival -- Individual and Structural Explanations -- Social Structure and Medical Policy -- Social Structure and Medical Care -- The Average and the Exception -- Designing Medical Practice: A Preliminary Illustration -- The Profession as an Element of Social Structure -- NOTES -- Part 2. The Position of the Profession in the Medical Care Structure -- 3. The Profession-An Overview -- Medicine and the State -- Medical Training -- Enzpirical Types of Practice -- Analytical Types of Practice -- Professional Regulation -- Professional Values -- Informal Organization of the Profession -- Tasks of Analysis -- NOTES -- 4. The Structural Solution to the Problem of Professional Authority -- The Profession of Consultation -- Official and Expert Authority -- Problems of Cultural and Educational Difference -- Professional Prestige