Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Medical sociology and health policy: an historical overview -- Privatization in the British health sector: a challenge to the NHS? -- The politics of professional power: medicine in a changing health service -- Health service management -- a sociological view: Griffiths and the non-negotiated order of the hospital -- Evaluating the outcomes of health care -- Recent developments in general practice: a sociological analysis -- Knowledge and control in health promotion: a test case for social policy and social theory -- The confused boundaries of community care -- The agenda for sociological health-policy research for the 1990s -- Name index -- Subject index.