Medical sociology
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At the centre of Medical sociology is the sociological study of the social institution of medicine, its knowledge, practice and effects. Medical sociologists investigate the social organization and production of health and illness, includes relevant aspects of the sociology of the professions and science and technology studies that relate to medicine and health care. They are also interested in lay experiences of health and illness, and some medical sociologists work at the boundaries of public health, demography and social gerontology to explore phenomena at the intersection of the social and clinical sciences.
Early work in medical sociology was conducted by Lawrence J Henderson whose theoretical interests in the work of Vilifredo Pareto inspired Talcott Parsons interests ins social systems theory. Parsons is one of the founding fathers of medical sociology, and applied social role theory to interactional relations between sick people and others. Key contributors to medical sociology since the 1950s include Howard Becker, Mike Bury, Peter Conrad, Jack Douglas, David Silverman, Phil Strong, Bernice Pescosolido, Jospeh W Schnieder, Anne Rogers, Anselm Strauss, Renee Fox, Joseph W. Schneider, and Thomas Szasz.
The field of medical sociology is usually taught as part of a wider sociology, clinical psychology or health studies degree course, or on dedicated Master's degree courses where it is sometimes combined with the study of medical ethics/bioethics.
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- Bird, Chloe E.; Conrad, Peter; and, Fremont, Allen M. (2000). Handbook of Medical Sociology (5th edition ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN 9780130144560. OCLC 42862076.
- Bloom, Samuel William (2002). The Word as Scalpel: A History of Medical Sociology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195072327. OCLC 47056386.
- Brown, Phil (2008). Perspectives in Medical Sociology (4th edition ed.). Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press. ISBN 9781577665182. OCLC 173976504.
- Cockerham, William C. (2001). The Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology. Oxford, UK; Malden, MA: Blackwell. ISBN 9780631217039. OCLC 44039611.
- Cockerham, William C.; Ritchey, Ferris Joseph (1997). Dictionary of Medical Sociology. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313292699. OCLC 35637576.
- Conrad, Peter (2007). The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801885846. OCLC 72774268.
- Helman, Cecil (2007). Culture, Health, and Illness (5th edition ed.). London, England: Hodder Arnold. ISBN 9780340914502. OCLC 74966843.
- Law, Jacky (2006). Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda. New York, NY: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 9780786717835. OCLC 64590433.
- Levy, Judith A.; Pescosolido, Bernice A. (2002). Social Networks and Health (1st edition ed.). Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Boston, MA: JAI. ISBN 9780762308811. OCLC 50494394.
- Mechanic, David (1994). Inescapable Decisions: The Imperatives of Health Reform. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. ISBN 9781560001218. OCLC 28029448.
- Rogers, Anne; Pilgrim, David (2005). A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness (3rd edition ed.). Maidenhead, England: Open University Press. ISBN 9780335215843. OCLC 60320098.
- Scambler, Graham; Higgs, Paul (1998). Modernity, Medicine, and Health: Medical Sociology Towards 2000. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415149389. OCLC 37573644.
- Turner, Bryan M. (2004). The New Medical Sociology: Social Forms of Health and Illness. New York, NY: W.W. Norton. ISBN 9780393975055. OCLC 54692993.
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