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
