Abstract
It has become increasingly difficult for most physicians to appreciate fully the current ferment of activity in health-related aspects of the social sciences. This selection of 32 papers from the 1973 Warsaw International Conference on the Sociology of Medicine will serve as a useful reference work as well as a convenient entry point into a complex interdisciplinary field. volume is subdivided into five major sections: in Society, which concentrates on recent socio-medical research in Eastern Europe; The Transformation of Medical Intervention, which presents some interesting conceptual formulations of important social and epidemiologic problems in health care; Sociological Insights Into the Health Services, dealing mainly with research questions, methods, and tentative results; a particularly well-done section, The Health System, which clearly conveys the various issues confronting sociological researchers who are grappling with analysis and comparison of different provision systems; and a final section, Teaching, concerned mainly with the teaching
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