Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Dialectical Sociology and the Countersystem Method
1: The Dialectical Paradigm
The Dialectical Paradigm - The Negation of Positivism
The Philosophy of Internal Relations
Historical Roots
The Core Elements of the Philosophy of Internal Relations
2: The Dialectical Theory of Society - Two Approaches
The Scientific Dialectical Perspective
The Praxis Dialectical Perspective
3: Fundamental Relations of the Social Crystal
The Human Being/Social Structure Relation
Relations Between Elements of the Social System
Relations Between Knowledge and Social Structure
Part II: A Countersystem Analysis of Medical Practice
Introduction to Part II
4: The Medical Model of the Future: The Holistic Health Countersystem/Utopia
Principle of Organization
The Knowledge Dimension: Knowledge Content
The Definition of Health
The Role of Subjective Consciousness in Health Production
The Source of Organic Disfunction
Symptoms and Organic Disfunction
Diagnosis of Organic Disfunction
Normative Elements
The Distribution of Medical Knowledge
The Social Structural Dimension
Micro Structure: The Patient-Practitioner Relationship
Macro Structure: The Structure of Medical Practice
Conclusions
5: The Traditional Medical Model
The Medical Scientific Paradigm
The Definition of Health
The Role of Subjective Consciousness in Health Production
The Nature of Organic Disfunction
Diagnosis of Disease
Response to Disease
Treatment of Disease
6: The Structural Relations of Health Production
The Distribution of Medical Knowledge
The Health Production Process
Interest Group Structure and the Traditional Medical Model
Medical Practitioners
The Owners of the Industrial Means of Production
Bureaucratic Imperative
Interrelations Between Interest Groups
The Principle of Organization
7: Diachronic Analysis of Medical Practice
The Evolution of Health Status
The Evolution of Medical Knowledge
Domestic Medicine
The Transition to Heroic Medicine
The Revival of Domestic Principles: Thomsonian Medicine
The Challenge of Homeopathic Medicine
The Rise of the Medical Scientific Model
The Public Health Model: A New Form of Holism
The Historical Evolution of Medical Practice
8: Emerging Trends: Back to the Future
Who Will Control the Health Care System of the Future?
9: Epilogue
Notes
References
Index