Sociological Research in the Field of Medicine
Progress and Prospects
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5621103 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oswald Hall (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1951 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 639 |
| Publication date | 1951-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2087356 |
| OpenAlex | W2328782976 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
T HE past decade has been an eventful one for the science and art of medicine. In the period under consideration discovery has been built on discovery; the machinery for carrying on medical research has expanded in substantial fashion; public discussion has grown warm over the appropriate social machinery for providing medical services; concern over health and aging have emerged as social problems; doctors and hospital administrators have become increasingly role-conscious. In this paper such factual developments are ignored; discussion is focused on a consideration of matters of a research order during that decade. When the sociologist studies medicine, he is studying work. Medicine has no unique interest for sociology. The justification for its study lies in the light it throws on more general forms of social organization. The sociologist's interest, therefore, is first in the institutions in which the work goes on-in this paper in the hospital and the doctor's office. Secondly, the sociologist is interested in medicine as part of the occupational division of labor in society. Finally, sociologists are interested in the social psychology of work, that is, in the relation of work to personality organization. All three of these fields have been advanced by recent research in the medical field. The remainder of this paper deals with developments in the institutional and occupational spheres
Engineering ethics · Field (mathematics · Social science · Sociological research · Sociological theory · Sociology · Engineering · Ethics in medical practice · Mathematics
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Perspektiewe in die mediese sosiologie
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Behavioral sciences and medical education
The concept “patient career” as a heuristic device for making medical sociology relevant to medical students
To Superintend the Sick
The Professional Role of the Physician in Bureaucratized Medicine
Hospital Support
Problems of Tomorrow
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 1954 - 2020 (67) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |