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The overall purpose of the series is to provide scholarly yet argumentative treatments of key problems in sociology. They present an original viewpoint upon subjectd where an orthodoxy does not exist, whether because of undue neglect or because recent research has overturned previous orthodoxies. Designed to provide empirically informed theory about society, it relates a diversity of empirical areas to central problems of sociological theory. This volume on the history of ideas of medical sociology aims to provide an overview of sociology's conceptualization of illness.