Buried in the pedantic pages of this book is a pointed challenge to medicine simply stated freidsons view is that the medical profession has become too autonomous and too powerful for the good of society and that it must therefore be regulatedlike the prominent medical sociologist he is the. Profession of medicine a study of the sociology of applied knowledge by elior freson new york dodd mead and company 1970 409 pp 1250 freidson notes that a physicians great est ambition is to discover and describe a new disease and to be immortalized by having his name used to identify the disease medicine in brief has a bias. Barney g glaser profession of medicine a study of the sociology of applied knowledge by eliot freidson new york dodd mead 1970 409 pp 1250 social f. Profession of medicine a study of the sociology of applied knowledge with a new afterword book. Title profession of medicine a study of the sociology of applied knowledge with a new afterword book created date 12 31 2003 21432 pm