Health, Medicine and Society 
Subtitle: Key Theories, Future Agendas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: April 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780415221368
First sentence: Social class has always been a fundamental concept in medical sociology, demonstrating its empirical value for the understanding of 'health chances' for the individual ever since the early years of this century when Stevenson constructed a classification based on father's occupation for the purpose of analysing infant mortality in England and Wales (Stevenson 1925).