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Parsons, Talcott (1997) [1951]. The social system. With a new preface by Bryan S. Turner (Reprint of the new ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN9780415060554.
In a description of the patient's role in the doctor-patient relationship, Parsons coined the term the 'Sick Role' as opposed to the 'Social Role'. Talcott Parsons is considered the father of Medical Sociology (with Rene Fox as the mother).
Freidson, Eliot (1988) [1970]. Profession of medicine : a study of the sociology of applied knowledge. With a new afterword by the author (University of Chicago Press ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN9780226262284.
Freidson, Eliot (2007) [1970]. Professional dominance : the social structure of medical care (1st paperback ed.). New Brunswick, N.J.: Aldine Transaction. ISBN9780202308555.
Gerhardt, Uta (1989). Ideas about illness : an intellectual and political history of medical sociology. New York: New York University Press. ISBN9780814730263.
Re-analyzed Parsons' work, and made the 'Sick Role' famous.
Petersen, Alan; Bunton, Robin, eds. (1997). Foucault, health and medicine. Foreword by Bryan S. Turner (Online ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN9780415151788.
Assesses the profound impact of Foucault's work and shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and illness are currently engaging with his work.
Freidson, Eliot (2000). Professionalism, the third logic : on the practice of knowledge. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN9780226262031.
Kelner, Merrijoy; Wellman, Beverly; Pescosolido, Bernice; Saks, Mike, eds. (2000). Complementary and alternative medicine : challenge and change. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers. ISBN9789058230980.
Williams, Simon J.; Birke, Lynda; Bendelow, Gillian, eds. (2003). Debating biology : sociological reflections on health, medicine, and society (1 ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN9780415279024.
Takes a look at the relationship between biology and society in the arena of health and medicine. Discusses the interplay between biological and social factors in the patterning of health and illness. Addresses the relationships between biology, science, and technology. For students and researchers in the social sciences.
Brown, Phil (2008). Perspectives in medical sociology (4th ed.). Long Grove, Ill.: Waveland Press. ISBN9781577665182.
Cockerham, William C. (2010). Medical sociology (11th ed.). Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall. ISBN9780136053101.
The standard reference in the field—in the US—this best-selling introduction to medical sociology presents the most recent and relevant ideas, concepts, themes, issues, debates, and research findings at the cutting-edge of the field. It contains first-person accounts from patients, physicians, and other health care providers; is based on a worldwide review of the literature but mainly focuses on the US; provides the most recent US health statistics, data, and American studies available.[citation needed]
