Talk:Profession of Medicine

"Seminal book" versus "a book"

Yeah WP:PUFFERY, but the book more or less created a field:

It is probably fair to say that Talcott Parsons’ (1951) writings on the sick role and the medical profession in The social system put medical sociology into the mainstream of sociology. But it was the 1970 publication of Eliot’s Profession of medicine that gave medical sociology its critical stance. This work fundamentally shifted the parameters of medical sociology, the sociological perspectives on medicine and the ways in which issues around health and illness could be sociologically examined. Here Eliot established a conflict perspective for the study of medicine, one that took patients’ perspectives seriously and examined the claims of the then powerful profession as grist for the sociological mill.

(10.1177/1363459307074688)

Also there is a biannual award named after him Freidson for medical sociology books https://www.asanet.org/communities-and-sections/sections/current-sections/medical-sociology-section-award-recipient-history/

Talpedia (talk) 19:08, 25 February 2023 (UTC)