The Development of the Sociology of Medicine in Poland.- I. Health in Society.- Health and Social Planning.- The Influence of the Legalization of Abortion on the Demographic Reproduction in Poland 1956-72.- Health and Disability in a Total Population.- Immigration and Mental Health.- Professional and Lay Attitudes toward Mental Illness and Mental Patients.- Social Differentiation of Medical Behaviour among Warsaw Inhabitants. Research Assumptions and Preliminary Results.- II. The Transformation of Medical Intervention.- Ethical and Existential Developments in Contemporaneous American Medicine: Their Implications for Culture and Society.- The Dilemmas of Genetics.- Some Notes on the Epidemiological and Ecological Models.- Team Work in Health Care in the U.S.: A Sociological Perspective.- Therapeutic Community and Psychiatry in the Community: a Comparative Study of the French and Anglo-Saxon Literatures.- III. Sociological Insights into the Health Sciences.- The Sociologist and the Problem of Venereal Diseases.- Developments in the Role of Medicine in Relation to Reproduction.- The Use of the Concept of Socialization in the Study of Rehabilitation.- Social Structure and Health: Methodological and Substantial Problems without Solutions.- Towards Sociomedical Health Indicators.- A Social Science Basis for Conceptualizing Family Health.- Values in the Medical Profession.- IV. The Health System.- The Health System and the Social System.- The Adaptation Patterns of the Medical System and Social Change.- Applications of Organizational Theory: Models of Organization and Service for Health Care.- Consumerism and Health Care.- The British National Health Service: Modernisation and Change.- Shifting Social Power in the Canadian Health System.- Deprivation and Health Care Planning in the U.S..- Professional Health Planning and the Health Professions.- V. Teaching.- From Learned Profession to Policy Science: A Trend Analysis of Sociology in the Medical Education of the United States.- Social Science Teaching in Medical Education: An Overview of the Situation in Great Britain.- Teaching Medical Sociology to Graduate Students in Sociology: A Three-Year Experience.- Teaching Medical Sociology to Sociology Students: a British View.- Goals and Functions of the Department of Behavioral Science in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.