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This series, "Advances in Medical Sociology" is dedicated to publishing innovative current research and cutting edge conceptual papers in the broad-ranging arena of the sociology of health. The papers in these volumes provide insights into established research areas and open new topics and problems for investigation. These annual volumes are intended to stimulate further creative research. The first volume is organized around six central themes including: new perspectives on doctor-patient relationships, the subjective experience of illness, morality in medicine, and cross national health care systems. Most volumes, however, focus on one dominant issue or theoretical perspective. Volume 2 deals with chronic illness and physical disability across the life course. This volume addresses the social and behavioral aspects of AIDS. Volume 3 brings together some of the leading workers in North America, Britain and continental Europe to address one of the most crucial areas confronting those in the health care field: the social and behavioral aspects of AIDS. These important, specially commissioned, state-of-the-art essays and research articles draw a wide readership from medical sociologists, public and community health specialists, and other professionals and practitioners working in the AIDS and health-care field.