Volume 9, Issue 1 (1991) Health Sociology

Volume 9 begins with Fritz's broad history of the uses of clinical sociology in health care settings in the past 60 years. While detailing some of sociology's important contributions, Fritz cautions that better collaboration is needed among the disciplines involved in health care. Also included in this section are two reprinted historical articles which emphasize that sociology has long been recognized as having important contributions to make to health care and medicine. The first of these articles is by Charles McIntire. Written in 1894, and first published in the Bulletin of American Academy of Medicine, its message that the science of sociology is essential to the field of medicine is as relevant today as it was then. The second, written by Stern for an address given at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in 1951, urges that the time is opportune for the emergence of a sociology of medicine.

Read more from editor Elizabeth J. Clark in the Introduction to this issue.