@article{945672,
      recid = {945672},
      author = {Bloom, Samuel William,},
      title = {The word as scalpel : a history of medical sociology /},
      publisher = {Oxford University Press,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {1 online resource (vi, 348 pages)},
      year = {2002},
      abstract = {Medical sociology is now an established subdiscipline in  both medicine and sociology. This book traces the  intellectual and institutional evolution of the field in  relation to antecedents of the past 2000 years. Drawing on  his own experience as a participant and witness as well as  from diverse fields, the author provides an account of the  ongoing search for knowledge about relationship between  illness, medicine, and society.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/945672},
}