In the Field
A Sociologist's Journey
Herausgeber: Fox, Renee C
Acknowledgments Introduction: An Ethnography of the Life of a Sociologist
1. Origins and Beginnings 2. Growing up on West End Avenue 3. Freshman Year
(1944-1945) at Smith College, and the Summer of 1945 4. Polio 5. The Year
in Whittier 6. Return to Smith 7. Graduate School: The Harvard Department
of Social Relations 8. Experiment Perilous 9. Columbia University's Bureau
of Applied Social Research and the Sociology of Medical Education Project
10. Teaching at Barnard College 11. The Summer of 1959: A Portal to Belgium
12. The Transforming Effects of Belgium on My Life: Part I 13. The
Transforming Effects of Belgium on My Life: Part II 14. Africa:
Leopoldville, Kisantu, and Usumbura 15. My Years in the Congo 16. Deciding
to Leave Barnard Photographs 17. Return to Harvard (1967-1969) 2 18.
Professor at the University of Pennsylvania (1969-) 19. A Sociologist in a
Medical School Miss Balkema's Death 20. Chairman Renee 21. China, 1978
Talcott Parsons's Death 22. China, 1981: Tianjin and the Team of Two 23.
Bioethics: Refl ections of an Observing Participant My Parents' Deaths 24.
The 1990s: A Time of Consummation (I): Knighthood 25. The 1990s: A Time of
Consummation: (II): Leaving the Field of Organ Replacement 26. Going Up to,
and Coming Down from, Oxford 27. Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without
Borders: Medical Humanitarianism and Its Dilemmas 28. Retiring 29. Willy's
Last Days 30. Becoming Eighty Envoi Index
