The Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology

x Contributors
Kristina Orfali, Ph.D., Assistant Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical
Ethics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Nina Ostrowska, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
Bernice A. Pescosolido, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
Stella Quah, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology, National University of
Singapore.
H. C. J. van Rensburg, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Centre for Health Systems
Research and Development, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South
Africa.
Elianne Riska, Ph.D., Academy Professor of Sociology, A Ê bo Akademi University,
A Ê bo, Finland.
Judith T. Shuval, Ph.D., Louis and Pearl Rose Professor of Medical Sociology
and Director, Programme in the Sociology of Health, School of Public Health,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Professor Johannes Siegrist, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Department of
Medical Sociology, DuÈ sseldorf University, DuÈ sseldorf, Germany.
Fred Stevens, Ph.D., Professor of Medical Sociology, University of Maastricht,
Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Hilary Thomas, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Surrey,
Guildford, England, and President of the European Society for Health and
Medical Sociology.