Judith T. ShuvalJUDITH T. SHUVAL is Louis and Pearl Rose Professor of Medical Sociology at the School of Public Health and the Department of Sociology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was awarded the Israel Prize for the Social Sciences in 1965 for her firt book Immigrants on the Threshold. Since then she has published Social Functions of Medical Practice (with A. Antonovsky and A. M. Davies, 1970), Entering Medicine: A Seven Year Study of Medical Education in Israel (1980), and Newcomers and Colleagues: Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel (1983). She has been a consultant to UNESCO, the World Health Organization, and policy-making bodies in Israel, and on the editorial boards of Social Science and Medicine and Sociology of Health and Illness. Read More Read Less