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Previous Volume 331:818-819 September 22, 1994 Number 12

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Edited by Frederic W. Hafferty and John B. McKinlay. 261 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1993. $47.50. ISBN 0-19-507592-7.

This remarkable sociological treatise, harking back to Talcott Parsons's perceptive elaboration of the sociology of professions, brings together 21 foremost social historians concerned with health care. Sprinkling in liberal and conservative viewpoints, it grows out of the visionary editorial efforts of David Willis at the Milbank Quarterly.

The first part of the book examines the "proletarianization" and deprofessionalization of medicine. The second part examines medical systems in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, France, Greece, the Scandinavian states, the former Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia (before the breakup), and China. A three-chapter summary helps dispel some of the gloom induced by . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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