ABSTRACT

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press.
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1976 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

part I|40 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|38 pages

Introduction

part II|115 pages

Background

part III|210 pages

Areas of Medical Sociology

chapter 5|31 pages

Becoming a Patient

chapter 6|35 pages

Doctors and Patients

chapter 7|29 pages

The Organization of Hospitals

chapter 8|37 pages

The Organization of Health Care

A Critical View of the 1974 Reorganization of the National Health Service

chapter 9|43 pages

Social Causes of Disease

chapter 10|33 pages

The Social Definition of Illness

part IV|31 pages

Conclusion

chapter 11|29 pages

Doctors and Society