Part 1 New perspectives on the doctor-patient relationship: patient-centred medicine - some sociological observations on its constitution, penetration, and cultural assonance, David Silverman, Michael Bloor; physicians' self-referent communication as management of uncertainty along the illness trajectory, Monica Hardesty; regressive intervention - the discourse of medicine during terminal encounters, Jeffrey M. Clair; universal entitledness for health care and its implications on the doctor-patient relationship - a new perspective on medical care, Zeev Ben-Sira. Part 2 The subjective experience of illness: age, chronic pain, and subjective assessment of health, Ellen L. Idler, Ronald J. Angel; normative beliefs of social scientists regarding the psychosocial and environmental factors that influence health behaviour change related to smoking, Mary Beth Love, Quint C. Thurman, et al. Part 3 Moral dimensions in medicine: life events and their effects on suicide - a test among physicians, Roger L. Brown; moral evaluation in medical research, Arnold Arluke. Part contents.
