The Word as Scalpel: A History of Medical Sociology

by SamuelW.Bloom (Author)

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  Paperback
  2002

  $39.75

  Samuel W. Bloom provides an account of the ongoing search for knowledge about the relationship between illness, medicine, and society. The book traces the intellectual and institutional evolution of the field in relation to antecedents of the past 2000 years and developments in American sociology and medicine since the turn of the century.