"Must be judged as a landmark in medical sociology."

--Norman Denzin, Journal of Health and Social Behavior

AAUP Web Site, August, 2000

Editor's IntroductionPrefaceIntroductionPart I. The Formal Organization of a Profession1. The Emergence of Medicine as a Consulting Profession2. Political Organization and Professional Autonomy3. The Medical Division of Labor4. The Form Characteristics of a ProfessionPart II. The Organization of Professional Performance5. Everyday Work Settings of the Professional6. Patterns of Practice in the Hospital7. The Test of Autonomy; Professional Self-Regulation8. The Clinical Mentality9. Profession as Organization-Formal and InformalPart III. The Social Construction of Illness10. Illness as Social Deviance11. Sociological Types of Illness12. The Professional Construction of Concepts of Illness13. The Lay Construction of Illness14. The Social Organization of IllnessPart IV. Consulting Professions in a Free Society15. The Limits of Professional Knowledge16. The Limits of Professional AutonomyAfterwordIndex of NamesIndex of Subjects