• Individualized Medical Sociology: Placing Sociology in Medical Practice - This article discusses the relevance and usefulness of sociology in medical practice, demonstrating how the discipline can enable medical students to improve their communication skills and view their patients as social beings.

1. Is sociology restricted to understanding groups? 
2. What is individualized medical sociology? 
3. Why may sociology be relevant to medical practice?

• Why Sociologists Abandoned the Sick Role Concept - This article discusses the factors which caused sociologists to abandon Parson's concept of the sick role, highlighting the changing concept of the patient within the sociology of health.

1. What is meant by the sick role concept?
2. How did conflict theorists use the sick role within their theories? 
3. How have sociologists critiqued the sick role?

• Rethinking the Relationship Between Socio-economic Status and Health: Making the Case for Sociological Theory in Health Inequality Research - This article analyses explanations of social inequality in health and outlines the areas which sociologists could explore within future work.

1. How have rates of health inequalities changed since the establishment of the British National Health Service? 
2. According to the authors what are the four common theories used to examine inequalities in health? 
3. What does the fundamental cause theory investigate?