General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE: INTEREST GROUPS AND THE ALLOCATION OF HEALTH CARE -- Birth Planning: Between Neglect and Coercion -- Political Ideology and Population Policy in Puerto Rico -- Fertility and the "Pill" in a Texas Barrio -- Beyond the Individual for the Practice of Social Medicine: Household Networks as Etiologic-Diagnostic Units -- Human Relations versus Social Relations in Medical Care -- Static Dynamics in Medical Care Organization -- Dialectical Materialism and Community Mental Health Programs: An Analysis of the Lincoln Hospital Department of Psychiatry -- Medical Education in Transition: Tanzania -- Regionalization of Health Services: Sociological Blocks to Realization of an Ideal -- Uses and Abuses of Innovations in the Delivery of Dental Care -- PART TWO: TOPIAS, UTOPIAS, AND COUNTER-UTOPIAS IN HEALTH CARE -- Capitalism and Public Health: A Neglected Theme in the Medical Anthropology of Africa -- Implicit versus Explicit Goals: Medical Care in Argentina -- Environmental Health: Hong Kong Squatters and Engels' Remarks on the Housing Question -- Health Care in Ukambani Kenya: A Socialist Critique -- Contemporary Health Planning Trends in Tanzania -- A Critical Description of Medical Services in Canada -- Cuban Health Care in Process: Models and Morality in the Early Revolution -- Thesis: Cultural Anthropology and Community Psychiatry -- Antithesis: World Health Organization and Basic Health Services -- Synthesis: Community Development -- The Regional Approach to Health in the Republic of Slovenia -- Community-Based Medical Care in Three Settings -- Toward a Convergence of Modern Western and Traditional Chinese Medical Services in Hong Kong -- Serve the People: What It Would Mean for Health Care in the United States -- PART THREE: SOCIAL SCIENCE IN HEALTH RESEARCH AND ACTION.

The Role of Applied Research in the Development of Health Services in a Chicano Community in Chicago -- Policy-Evaluative Research: Some Methodological and Political Issues -- Insinuating Social Science into Medical Thinking: Problems and Possibilities -- Use of Social Research in Population Programs: A Case Study of a Policy Debate Among Social Science Experts -- Social Science and Health in Cuba: Ideology, Planning, and Health -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.