Background
Freidson, Eliot Lazarus was born on February 20, 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Joseph and Grace (Backer) Freidson.
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"This is an immensely useful book for sociologists working in a wide range of sub-fields. It confirms Freidson's status among the leading exponents of the old Chicago tradition. This book is catholic in its reading, sophisticated in its arguments and cautious in its judgements."—Robert Dingwall, Sociology "As an attempt to provide a complex, wide-ranging account this book should be essential reading for specialist students, and it should act as a stimulus for the extension of both empirical research and theory."—Alex Faulkner, Sociological Review "Freidson's book is a concise introduction to the professions, challenging specialists with its puncturing of theoretically induced misconceptions and offering general readers a clear but critical entrée to the theoretical literature concerning this central aspect of modern society."—Andrew Abbott, Science "This is a stimulating and well-written book which opens up a new perspective on the professions as well as contributing to existing debates."—David Podmore, Times Higher Education Supplement
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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 each of the broad public domains of welfare, education, law, and health there are crises of public confidence. Each in its own way is failing to accomplish its essential mission of alleviating material deprivation, instructing the young, controlling and righting criminal and civil wrongs, and healing the sick. The poor, the student, the offender and the victim, the sick-all have in some way protested the failure of the institutions responsible for them. And these protests occur at a time when the human services are absorbing an increasingly massive amount of money and manpower. Awareness of that crisis intensified in the second half of the twentieth century. Increasing energy has been invested in research designed to determine what can be done. Each of the human services has long had its own research tradition, but during the sixties each has also made a concerted effort to mobilize and use the skills of such comparatively new disciplines as sociology. Owing to these new demands, sociology itself has grown. The hitherto obscure specialties of the sociology of law and medicine and the established specialties of criminology and educational sociology have taken on new vigor. In applying themselves the task of studying the human services, however, these segments of sociology have had to choose between two different strategies. Rather than dealing with the details of the human services for their own sake-and this lack of detail in a characteristic limitation of the second approach-this book shall instead attempt to stand outside the system in order to delineate one of its critical assumptions and a strategic feature of its basic structure. This book deals with the concept of profession, for the concept rests 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.
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In this collection of essays, the distinguished medical sociologist Eliot Freidson examines the current status of the American medical profession. Showing that present-day health care policies and increasingly restrictive health insurance contracts adversely affect both doctor-patient and colleague relationships, Freidson offers a number of controversial proposals designed to avoid dehumanization of patients while reducing costs.
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"Must be judged as a landmark in medical sociology."—Norman Denzin, Journal of Health and Social Behavior "Profession of Medicine is a challenging monograph; the ideas presented are stimulating and thought provoking. . . . Given the expanding domain of what illness is and the contentions of physicians about their rights as professionals, Freidson wonders aloud whether expertise is becoming a mask for privilege and power. . . . Profession of Medicine is a landmark in the sociological analysis of the professions in modern society."—Ron Miller, Sociological Quarterly "This is the first book that I know of to go to the root of the matter by laying open to view the fundamental nature of the professional claim, and the structure of professional institutions."—Everett C. Hughes, Science
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Freidson, Eliot Lazarus was born on February 20, 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Joseph and Grace (Backer) Freidson.
Student, University Maine, 1942. Bachelor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1947. Master of Arts, University Chicago, 1950.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1952. Master of Arts, St. John's College, (England), 1979.
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Illinois, 1952-1954;
assistant, then associate professor sociology, College City New York, 1956-1961;
member of faculty, New York University, since 1961;
professor sociology, New York University, since 1963;
head department sociology, New York University, 1975-1978;
director études associé, École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales, Paris, 1978, 87;
Pitt professor American history and institutions, Cambridge (England) University, 1979-1980. Consultant in field, since 1956. Adviser division research grants National Institutes of Health, 1963-1966.
Adviser joint research program Social Security Administration and Social Rehabilitation Service, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1968-1970. Fellow Center Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1974-1975. Eastern Sociological Association Falk Fund lecturer, 1976.
Member President's Commision on Mental Health, 1977-1978. Member Commission Professionalism American Bar Association, 1985-1986.
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Served with infantry Army of the United States, 1943-1946, European Theatre of Operations. Fellow American Sociological Association (chairman medical sociological section 1963-1964, Sorokin award 1972), American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Society Study Social Problems, Eastern Sociological Society (president 1986), American Association of University Professors, International Sociological Association (president committee research medical sociology 1967-1970), Institute Medicine, National Academy of Sciences.
Married Helen Emery Giambruni, April 21, 1976. Children by previous marriages— Jane Beatrice, Oliver Eliot (deceased), Matthew Aaron.