Volume I: the Nature of Medical Sociology General Introduction: Medical Sociology: Past, Present and Future Introduction to Volume I Part 1: the origins and trajectories of medical sociology 1. S. Bloom , 'The origins: medicine as social science, public health, and social medicine', in S. Bloom, The Word as Scalpel: A History of Medical Sociology , (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). 2. M. Gold , 'A crisis of identity: the case of medical sociology', Journal of Health and Social Behaviour, 18, 1977, pp. 160-168. 3. E. Freidson , 'Viewpoint. Sociology and medicine: a polemic', Sociology of Health and Illness , 2, 1983, pp. 208-219. 4. W. Cockerham , 'Medical sociology at the Millenium', in S. Quah and A. Sales, eds., The International Handbook of Sociology , (London: Sage, 2000). Part 2: Theoretical perspectives 5. T. Parsons , Abridged version of Chapter Ten, The Social System , (London: Routledge,Glencoe Ill: Free Press, 1951). 429-79. 6. S. Taylor and C. Ashworth , 'Durkheim and social realism: an approach to health and illness', in G. Scambler, ed., Sociological Theory and Medical Sociology , (London: Tavistock Press, 1989). 7. G. Scambler , 'Habermas and the power of medical expertise', in G. Scambler, ed., Sociological Theory and Medical Sociology, (London: Tavistock Press: 1989). 8. I. Jones , 'Power, present and past: for a historical sociology of health and illness', Social Theory and Health , 1, 2003, pp. 130-148. Part 3: Medicine and medicalization 9. I. Zola , 'Medicine as an institution of social control', Sociological Review , 20, 1972, pp. 487-504. 10. P. Strong, 'Sociological imperialism and the profession of medicine: a critical examination of the thesis of medical imperialism', Social Science and Medicine , 13A, 1979, pp. 199-215. 11. D. Armstrong , 'The rise of surveillance medicine', Sociology of Health and Illness, 17, 1995, pp. 393-404. 12. D. Lupton , 'Foucault and the medicalization critique', in A. Peterson and R. Bunton, eds., Foucault, Health and Medicine , (London; Routledge, 1997). Part 4: Limits to medicine 13. J. Powles , 'On the limitations of modern medicine', Science, Medicine and Man , 1, 1972, pp. 1-30. 14. N. Jewson , 'The disappearance of the sick man from medical cosmology 1770-1870', Sociology, 10, 1976, pp. 225-244. 15. M. Becker, 'A medical sociologist looks at health promotion', Journal of Health and Social Behaviour, 34, 1993, pp. 1-6. 16. P. Conrad , 'The mirage of genes', Sociology of Health and Illness , 21, 1999, pp. 228-240. Volume II: Social Structures and Health Introduction to Volume II Part 5: Social causes of health and illness 17. B. Link and J. Phelan , 'Social conditions as fundamental causes of disease', Journal of Health and Social Behaviour, Extra Issue, 1995, pp. 80-94. 18. L. Berkman, T. Glass, I. Brissette and T. Seeman , 'From social integration to health: Durkheim in the new millenium', Social Science and Medicine , 51, 2000, pp. 843-857. Part 6: Social patterns in health: gender, ethnicity and age 19. S. Arber and H. Homans , 'From women's health to a gender analysis of health', in W. Cockerham, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology, (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001). 20. I. Kawachi, B. Kennedy, V. Gupta and D. Protherow-Stith , 'Women's status and the health of women and men: a view from the States', Social Science and Medicine , 48, 1999, pp. 21-32. 21. J. Nazroo, 'Genetic, cultural or socio-economic vulnerability? Expl
