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Medical sociology is the sociological analysis of health, Illness, differential access to medical resources, the social organization of medicine, Health Care Delivery, the production of medical knowledge, selection of methods, the study of actions and interactions of healthcare professionals, and the social or cultural (rather than clinical or bodily) effects of medical practice. [1]
A group of Chilean 'Damas de Rojo', volunteers on their local hospital and an example of social medicine. Social medicine is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the profound interplay between socio-economic factors and individual health outcomes. Rooted in the challenges of the Industrial Revolution, it seeks to:
The Social Transformation of American Medicine (Basic Books, 1982). very wide ranging history of American medicine. Teller, Michael . The Tuberculosis Movement : A Public Health Campaign in the Progressive Era (1988) Tomes, Nancy. "The private side of public health: sanitary science, domestic hygiene, and the germ theory, 1870-1900."
Social emergency medicine encompasses many environmental and behavioral factors that affect health. These include housing and food insecurity, [3] [4] the use and misuse of tobacco, drugs, and alcohol, [5] community and interpersonal violence, [6] the impact of firearms on public health, [7] human trafficking, [8] and communicable disease including HIV and Hepatitis C. [9] Proponents of social ...
One of the founders of the sociology of health and illness is Talcott Parsons, an American sociologist, who analyzed the relationship between patients and their doctors in his book The Social System written in 1951. In his sick role theory, [9] he argued that people who were sick adopted a social role, not just a biological condition. Those who ...
A 12th-century manuscript of the Hippocratic Oath in Greek, one of the most famous aspects of classical medicine that carried into later eras. The history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand medical practices, both past and present, throughout human societies.
Medical humanities is an interdisciplinary field of medicine which includes the humanities (philosophy of medicine, medical ethics and bioethics, history of medicine, literary studies and religion), social science (psychology, medical sociology, medical anthropology, cultural studies, health geography) and the arts (literature, theater, film, and visual arts) and their application to medical ...
the development of systems of medical knowledge and medical care; the patient-physician relationship; the integration of alternative medical systems in culturally diverse environments; the interaction of social, environmental and biological factors which influence health and illness both in the individual and the community as a whole