Download or read book The Word as Scalpel written by Samuel William Bloom and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2002 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical sociology is now an established subdiscipline in both medicine and sociology. This book traces the intellectual and institutional evolution of the field in relation to antecedents of the past 2000 years. Drawing on his own experience as a participant and witness as well as from diverse fields, the author provides an account of the ongoing search for knowledge about relationship between illness, medicine, and society.