American Medical Sociology and Health Problems in the Global South

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2363700
AutoresR Farber (0000-0002-3707-7816, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA), Joseph Harris (0000-0002-7458-6580, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen65
Número5
Páginas848-868
Fecha de publicación2022-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0731-1214 • E-ISSN: 1533-8673
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/07311214211067763
OpenAlexW4205679697
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas57

COVID-19 has focused global attention on disease spread across borders. But how has research on infectious and noncommunicable disease figured into the sociological imagination historically, and to what degree has American medical sociology examined health problems beyond U.S. borders? Our 35-year content analysis of 2,588 presentations in the American Sociological Association's (ASA) Section on Medical Sociology and 922 articles within the section's official journal finds less than 15 percent of total research examined contexts outside the United States. Research on three infectious diseases in the top eight causes of death in low-income countries (diarrheal disease, malaria, and tuberculosis [TB]) and emerging diseases-Ebola, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)-was nearly absent, as was research on major noncommunicable diseases. Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) received much more focus, although world regions hit hardest received scant attention. Interviews suggest a number of factors shape geographic foci of research, but this epistemic parochialism may ultimately impoverish sociological understanding of illness and disease

Criminology · Disease · Family medicine · Health care · Medical sociology · Middle East respiratory syndrome · Pandemic · Pathology · Political science · Public health · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of health and illness · Tuberculosis · Health disparities and outcomes · Law · Medicine · Public Health Policies and Education · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research