Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 21:55:32 -0500 (EST)
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From: Phil_Brown@brown.edu (Phil Brown)
Subject: Sol Levine passed away
Dear friends and colleagues,

I am sorry to report that Sol Levine passed away Sunday November 17, 1996. 
He was in a hospital for a minor problem, passed out, and could not be 
resuscitated.

Sol was a wonderful man, a mentor and colleague to so many, a leading light 
in our field, and a "mensch," the Yiddish word for an all-around fine 
person. Several years ago Sol was deservedly a recipient of the Leo G. 
Reeder Award for Distinguished Contribution to Medical Sociology.  In 1996 
he also received the Medical Sociology Section's Certificate of Appreciation 
for lonstanding service to the Section.  

In recent years, Sol had worked hard to develop a line of research 
concerning social inequalities in health status and health care.  Through 
his research at the Health Institute of Tufts New England Medical Center, 
through his faculty involvement at the Department of Health and Social 
Behavior of the Harvard School of Public Health, and through the Society and 
Health Working Group that he co-founded, Sol carried out his own research, 
nourished the work of others, and connected up with people in other 
countries working in this area.  His recent co-edited collection, Society 
and Health, is a fine example of that direction in his work.  I was 
fortunate to have worked with Sol in the Society and Health Working Group, 
and to have known him as a friend and colleague.  I will miss him, and I am 
sure so many of you will too.

Perhaps some of you would like to share thoughts and memories about Sol on 
the MEDSOC discussion list.  I hope we will be able to have a memorial for 
Sol at the ASA meetings in Toronto.  

Phil

Phil Brown, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Brown University
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