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medical sociology [1 record]

Record 1 2005-09-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Medicine
CONT

Medical sociology examines societal dimensions of health, illness, disability and institutional management of health care.

CONT

Sociology of medicine ... the social context of disease and medical care ... stress and psychosomatic illness, causes and consequences of mental illness, the sick role, variations in illness behaviour, doctor-patient relationships, unorthodox systems of medical practice, psychiatric therapies, organization of the medical profession, social structure of the hospital, and politics of the health care system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie de la médecine
CONT

[...] on estime que le débat sur l'éthique en matière de thérapies complémentaires et parallèles devrait tirer profit des réflexions d'autres domaines d'enquête comme l'épistémologie, l'histoire et la philosophie des sciences, l'anthropologie et la sociologie médicale [...]

CONT

La technologie médicale a pris le pas sur la sociologie de la médecine.

Spanish

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