Eliot Freidson

Eliot Freidson (1923 – December 14, 2005)[1] was a sociologist and medical sociologist who worked on the theory of professions. Charles Bosk says that Freidson was a founding figure in medical sociology who played a major role in the growth and legitimization of the subject.[2] The American Sociological Society awards the Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award for medical sociology every two years.[3]

Eliot Freidson
Born1923
Boston
DiedDecember 14, 2005
OccupationCollege Professor
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
InfluencesEverett Hughes
Academic work
DisciplineSociology
Sub-disciplineMedical Sociology
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Freidson was born in Boston, received a doctorate in sociology from University of Chicago, and was a professor at New York University.[1] He served in the US army in the 1940s.[4]: 287 

Many of Freidsons original ideas on medicine were influenced by those of Everett Hughes, which Freidson took and turned into a consistent theory.[5]: 2  Freidson's 1961 paper, Patients view of Medical Practice explores how patients and physicians have different conceptions of illness and how these conceptions create conflict between patients and doctors and critiques Talcott Parsons' concept of the Sick role.[5]: 4 

Freidson saw the doctor–patient relationship as a conflict or clash of perspectives. Calnan distinguishes this viewpoint from Talcott Parsons which focused more on the properties of expertise, ethics, and alturism of the profession.[6]: 288 

Publications

Papers
  • Patients view of Medical Practice, 1961[7]
  • Professionalism and the Organization of Middle-Class Labour in Postindustrial Society, 1973
  • Professions and the Occupational Principle, 1973

Books
  • Profession of Medicine: A Study of the Sociology of Applied Knowledge, 1970[8]
  • Doctoring Together: A Study of Professional Control, 1975[9]
  • Professionalism: The Third Logic, 2001 [10]

References
  1. Pearce, Jeremy (2005-12-26). "Eliot Freidson, 82, Dies; Studied Structure of Professions". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  2. Bosk, Charles L. (2006). "Review Essay: Avoiding conventional understandings: the enduring legacy of Eliot Freidson". Sociology of Health & Illness. 28 (5): 637–646. doi:10.1111/j.0141-9889.2006.511_1.x. ISSN 1467-9566. PMID 16910950.
  3. "Awards". American Sociological Association. 2014-02-12. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
  4. Collyer, F. (2015-02-12). The Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Illness and Medicine. Springer. ISBN 978-1-137-35562-1.
  5. Halpern, Sydney; Anspach, Renee R. (August 1993). "The Study of Medical Institutions: Eliot Freidson's Legacy". Work and Occupations. 20 (3): 279–295. doi:10.1177/0730888493020003002. hdl:2027.42/68643. ISSN 0730-8884. S2CID 143853527.
  6. Calnan, Michael (2015), Collyer, Fran (ed.), "Eliot Freidson: Sociological Narratives of Professionalism and Modern Medicine", The Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Illness and Medicine, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 287–305, doi:10.1057/9781137355621_19, ISBN 978-1-349-47022-8, retrieved 2021-11-05
  7. Anderson, Odin W. (March 1962). "ELIOT FREIDSON. Patients' Views of Medical Practice: A Study of Subscribers to a Prepaid Medical Plan in the Bronx. Pp. 268. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1961. $3.75". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 340 (1): 166–167. doi:10.1177/000271626234000164. ISSN 0002-7162. S2CID 145485313.
  8. Freidson, Eliot (1988-05-15). Profession of Medicine: A Study of the Sociology of Applied Knowledge. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-26228-4.
  9. Freidson, Eliot (1975). Doctoring Together: A Study of Professional Social Control. Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-444-99017-4.
  10. Freidson, Eliot (2001). Professionalism : the third logic. Cambridge, UK: Polity. ISBN 0-7456-0330-0. OCLC 47678361.


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