Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Context: 1. Facing sickness; 2. Healing in society; Part II. Patients: 3. Self-medication; 4. Attitudes towards doctors; 5. Consultants; 6. Irregulars; Part III. Doctors: 7. The economy of medicine; 8. The doctors' point of view; 9. Therapies; 10. Doctors and women; Part IV. Medicine, Ideology and Society: 11. Medical knowledge; 12. Survey and conclusion; Notes; bibliography; Index.