Abstract
In 1955, Robert Straus first suggested a logical division of medical sociology into two categories, the sociology of medicine and sociology in medicine. The first is concerned with studying the organizational structure, role relationships, rituals, and functions of medicine as a system of behavior. The second consists of research involving the integration of concepts, techniques, and personnel from many disciplines where the sociologist is collaborating with the physician in studying a disease process or factors influencing the patient's response to illness. For Straus, sociology in medicine had a strongly applied component, in that the social sciences could be employed to inform and instruct medical professionals in recognizing and responding to the social factors associated with health and disease. This volume, as one would expect, falls into the second category, although at times it enters into a third classification, which can be called sociology and medicine, the chief drawback of the
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