Books by Eliot Freidson

Conveys how medical people shape and organize the knowledge, perception, and experience of illness, as well as the substance of illness behavior, its management, and treatment. The authors believe that the understanding of specifically human rather than generally "animal" illness requires proper study of the social meanings surrounding illness.

In the United States today we are confronted by a number of serious social problems, not the least of which concern the character of our basic human services

In the United States, people are confronted by a number of serious social problems. This book deals with the concept of profession, on assumptions about how services to laymen should be controlled and is realized by a special kind of social structure that organizes the presentation of those services.