Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- 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: Léopoldville, Kisantu, and Usumbura -- 15 My Years in the Congo -- 16 Deciding to Leave Barnard -- Photographs -- 17 Return to Harvard (1967-1969) -- 18 Professor at the University of Pennsylvania (1969- ) -- 19 A Sociologist in a Medical School -- Miss Balkema's Death -- 20 Chairman Renée -- 21 China, 1978 -- Talcott Parsons's Death -- 22 China, 1981: Tianjin and the "Team of Two"--23 Bioethics: Reflections of an Observing Participant -- My Parents' Deaths -- 24 The 1990s: A Time of Consummation (I): "Knighthood" -- 25 The 1990s: A Time of Consummation (II) -- 26 Going Up to, and Coming Down from, Oxford -- 27 Médecins Sans Frontières/ Doctors Without Borders: Medical Humanitarianism and Its Dilemmas -- 28 Retiring -- 29 Willy's Last Days -- 30 Becoming Eighty -- Envoi -- Index