The clinical sociologist must have a view of health that goes beyond treatment and rehabilitation and includes health promotion and disease prevention (Bruhn, 1991:43). Brokering health involves helping to create optimal or maximal opportunities for the well-being of individuals, groups, and organisations (Bruhn, 1991:43). The health broker is concerned with the social definition and implications of health and normality (Bruhn, 1991:43). The clinical sociologist may facilitate, advocate, negotiate, consult, advise, innovate, observe, or perform several of these functions as part of his/her role as broker (Bruhn, 1991:44). A broker is an agent or middleman, an essential third party in an interaction in which some type of change, involving two
